Joshua Ngugi Toro

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was saying that the former Minister knows what happened because when we advertised in November, 2005, he was aware that we were doing the design review. That is why we advertised. We made the decision when he was there. So, I am saying that he is aware why we went for design review. However, once the design review is carried out and we know the scope of the work that is going to be involved, we will tender on the specifications as given by the consulting engineers after they have done the review. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government is putting up urgent measures to open up areas which have tremendous tourism potential. Within this financial year, the design review contract will be awarded and we will allocate money for the next financial year for the construction of this section of the road while waiting to get resources to do the remaining 229 kilometres to Lake Turkana. However, the construction of the Isiolo-Moyale Road is just about to commence, which is being funded by the African Development Bank (ADB). This will begin next year. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are off-loading a lot of design works to the private sector because the internal capacity that the hon. Member is talking about is already overloaded. There is no point of saying in Parliament that we are going to do it internally when at the end of the day, the same hon. Member will say that we have taken a very long time. The easiest way, and the way we had foreseen, is to off-load this work to private consultants. Why they never responded, I do not know. I am also not in a position to ... view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that Kisumu-Miwani Road was badly damaged. (b) A total of Kshs9,607,000 from the Road Maintenance Fuel Levy (RMFL) has been allocated for the road this financial year. The money will be used to improve the road to motorable standard. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the money will be used to do spot patching along the road. During the last financial year, we had allocated about Kshs6.5 million to this road, which was used for spot patching. I am not saying that the Kshs9.6 million will be enough to do the sort of 3956 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 28, 2006 work that we need to do on this road. We need to do a total rehabilitation of this road. The section is about 54 kilometres and we require a lot of money to rehabilitate it. Right now, we are working on a ... view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: I am sure that the hon. Member from Nyeri is very unhappy about the road he has talked about. But I told him last time we talked about the issue that there were some things we were working on to improve on the rates, so that the contractor for Sagana-Marua Road can carry out his work because the rates he had tendered are far below the ones we are using in construction these days. Once the rates are approved by the Treasury, we will let the contractor to proceed so that he does not abandon the project. There is no ... view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I said there would be rehabilitation of the entire road, I meant that the new design would involve working out the drainage system. Once the road is rehabilitated without the drainage system being addressed, it will deteriorate after a short time. So, we cannot deal with the issue of culverts now because we will come up with a new design during rehabilitation. view
• 9 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that tourists and wananchi commuting from the South Coast have experienced transport problems due to frequent breakdowns at Likoni Ferry. (b) My Ministry is considering constructing an alternative route through Mazeras to ease congestion occasioned by the ferry. The World Bank will fund the design of the project under the Northern Corridor Transport Infrastructure Programme. The alternative route will be called the Mombasa Bypass to South Coast. It is envisaged that the bypass will go along way in easing the traffic congestion which is currently being experienced. view
• 9 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the programme is going on well. At the moment, the Ministry has already short-listed six consultants, who are going to bid for the consultancy work. They are expected to return their bids by 26th of this month. Once we select the consultant to do the work, it will take about 18 months. After this, we will enter into an agreement for financing with the World Bank. We will then go to tender and get the contractor to carry out the construction work. view
• 9 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, although that is not part of this Question, the Emali- Loitokitok Road project is going on very well. We have already assigned GIB-Africa to do the design review and supervision of the project. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is already programmed that design review and construction work will take 30 months. Work will commence from around February next year. view