Joshua Ngugi Toro

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 171 to 180 of 405.

• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, we are not very keen on the gravelling that is going on today. Once the bitumenization tender has been awarded, it will no longer be a gravel road but a tarmacked road. So, whichever way, the contract of the contractor who is on the ground today will have to be terminated and the other programme will start. view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is not easy to tell that. Like I said, we are opening the tenders tomorrow. However, what I said is what we have earmarked for this financial year to be spent on that road. The final figure will come out when the tenders are opened and the award has been made. view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Bus stages have not been constructed on the recently completed Kisii-Chemosit Road because a decision was made to construct a wide road throughout to cater for stages and safety due to the super-elevation required for all the curves along the road. (b) The quantities provided in the contract have been exhausted. Therefore, it will not be December 6, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4171 possible to tarmac the deviations to Kebirigo and Nyaramba markets, respectively. view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is one road that has a very long history. If I may just recap what has been happening on this road, which has taken, as the hon. Member says, over 20 years, this road was first awarded to M/s Solel Bonel International in 1986 for a contract price of about Kshs146,500,000. It was terminated in 1998; two years later, due to lack of performance by the contractor. After that, Zakhem International was awarded the contract in April 1988 and it suspended the works after four years in March 1992 for non-payment by the previous ... view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not an omission. It is a deliberate plan to widen this road so that even when matatus and buses are stopping on the way for people to alight or embark, other vehicles would still comfortably be passing one another. For all the other roads, facilities for bus stages are put in the design. It is only that these days, matatus want to drop and pick passengers everywhere. They do not respect where the stages are. They want to stop even where there are no stages. We cannot, because of traffic regulations, put so ... view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kasarani-Mwiki Road is now being constructed. Until it is complete, the hon. Member cannot say that those facilities will not be provided. view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the hon. Member that this road was used before for many years as a political tool to vote in KANU during the last various elections. It is a testimony that this Government is not doing development so that it can be voted in. Immediately, it took power, this road was opened by the President and it is going to be complete by 2007. The issue of the bus stages will be looked into once this road is completed and then all that is left is to look into how we are going ... view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the road signs are not there, that is the mistake of the contractor and we will look into that. As I said, since the road is not fully complete and it will be completed in April 2007, we will look and re-examine the road signage all the way from Kisii to Chemosit and to the Centre. view
• 6 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree that when the design was done, we decided to widen the road instead of having many bus stops. We did not anticipate the problems that the hon. Member is raising. It is imperative that we have to provide bus stops. That will be looked into separately, because we cannot issue variation orders to the contractor. The Ministry does not issue variation orders now. It will have to be looked into as a separate tender. We shall award the tender to a person who will build those bus stops. We shall incorporate the service ... view
• 5 Dec 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that River Sio overflowed the Sio River Bridge on Road D256 connecting Butula Constituency with Nambale Constituency on 22nd November, 2006, and finally subsided on 2nd December, 2006. (b) Instructions have already been given to the District Works Officer, Busia to request the District Roads Committee to allocate adequate funds for the clearing of the River Sio Bridge drainage channel at the bridge so that the river can flow smoothly and thus reduce its likelihood of overflowing the bridge. view