Joshua Ngugi Toro

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 211 to 220 of 405.

• 9 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with due respect to the hon. Member, it is not possible to say now how much will be spent. It will depend on what the consultants come up with in their designs. I am saying this because the scope of work for Dongokundu-Miritini Bypass also includes some other work, because it is a package. Construction work will cover Mbaraki-Mnazi Road, Archbishop Makarios Road, Mwakiringo Street and a flyover over the railway line connecting Mwakiringo Street and Lumumba Road. There will also be the widening of the access to Moi International Airport. So, this will be a package ... view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. You have severally reminded the House that hon. Members should be here by 9.00 a.m. to start the session. Is it in order for hon. Sudi to ask somebody else to ask his Question just because he will be late, yet he was not being absent today? view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Ministry has no immediate plans to tarmack Road C103, Malindi-Salagate, which links Malindi Town and Tsavo East National Park. However, all measures have been put in place to ensure proper maintenance of the road. The maintenance work will be carried out under the Ministry's routine road maintenance programme. view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the hon. Member is misleading the House November 1, 206 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3329 because I was there with the President and he never promised the tarmacking of this road. If the President promised the tarmacking of this road, then why has the hon. Member brought the Question to the House? view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know which roads the hon. Member wants on this list because the Kenya Roads Board (KRB) recently advertised in the papers all the roads that are being undertaken this financial year. So, I do not know which list the hon. Member wants. This is why I said that hon. Members of Parliament do not care to know what is happening. They do not want to read even what is advertised in the papers. view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have so many roads under that category. Could the hon. Member specify which roads he wants to know whether they are being undertaken? We are doing a continuous exercise. There are roads where tenders have already been awarded. There are others in the process of being awarded and the list will continue to increase until January next year when we will be awarding more tenders for construction of roads. view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are so many factors that qualify a road to be tarmacked. view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that 17.1 kilometres of earth road separate the tarmac road from Machakos to Kangundo. (b) The Government has no immediate plans to tarmack the 17.1-kilometre road. However, during the current financial year, Kshs830,000 has been set aside to carry out routine maintenance in order to make the road motorable. view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not true that our priorities are wrong, unless the hon. Member proves that the roads we are doing; for example the Machakos turn-off/Masii Road and the Tawa/Kamuthanga Road, do not deserve to be tarmacked, and that the only road that should be tarmacked is the 17.1 kilometres between Kamuthanga and Kangundo. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have not been able to allocate money for the 17.1 kilometres of road. However, the section from Machakos to Kamuthanga is included in the rehabilitation programme for Machakos turn-off/Masii and Tawa/Kamuthanga Roads. So, it is a question of ... view
• 1 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the floods that have occured in Mombasa have caused a lot of damage. We are assessing the situation, so that we can know what extra damage has been done over and above that done during the March/April rains. We had already allocated some money for maintenance of the road. The Malindi-Salagate Road that the hon. Member is asking about has been allocated Kshs4.8 million for maintenance this financial year. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this money, which comes from the Kenya Roads Board (KRB), cannot come at once. The KRB is now receiving revenue and has started ... view