Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Aug 2024 in Senate: Therefore, I was just saying that to remind Members of the importance of a recess period, especially in light of present-day conversation across the country where there is a push to have more accountability from both the national and the county governments, the citizens are increasingly demanding the voice of the MCAs and the Senate, which is the oversight wing of our county governments, to ensure that services are rendered to citizens. Therefore, I hope that with this change of calendar dates, Members will find time to go and be with their constituents, check on the progress of the ongoing ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to come and respond to the questions. Again, let me repeat that it is my greatest pleasure to come back to this august House. Since all the questions relate to pending roads, allow me, by way of introduction, just to say something in two minutes. One is that the situation has not changed in so far as development of our roads in the country is concerned from the time I was here. Let me repeat that it is important for the nation to understand that when we came into office in ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will read the answers a bit faster because most of the answers to the questions relate to the nonexistence of budgetary allocation for the roads to be done. This is important for the state of the nation, the Ministry and our roads. The reason this Government has been accused of miscommunication is that for the last two years, we have behaved like an African father who does not tell his children the exact state of his pocket. This is in the hope that in the fullness of time, you will get something and satisfy your ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: The upgrading to bitumen standards and performance-based maintenance of the Gotnanga-Jera-Ba-Ober-D-1853 road project is currently at 20 per cent progress, with 2.35 kilometres of tarmac completed out of the contracted 12 kilometres. The project's delay was previously caused by inadequate budgetary allocation, leading to payment delays and the contractor's withdrawal from the site. The contractor has since resumed full operations following the payment of all the pending bills in November 2023. The project is anticipated to be completed in this Financial Year 2024/2025, subject to the appraisal of the contractor's application for an extension of time. I thank you, Mr. ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to respond as follows- Outstanding works remain on the project for the upgrading to bitumen standards and performance-based routine maintenance of the Kijiauri-Nyansiongo-Raitigo- Metamaywa Road. The contractor, China Far East Construction Group Limited, withdrew from the site due to severe financial distress from the significant amount owed by him, amounting to Kshs856,981,424. I am cognizant of the fact that the outstanding works are critical for the safe usage of the road and constitute the installation of tertiary road features such as road furniture, speed bumps, road markings and signage. It is noteworthy ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: This has become also a problem for us at the road safety site. The questions Kenya is asking, and then again using this answer, it is across the country. All the roads which are pending are partially done. The sequencing of how to construct these roads requires that you finish first before you start road furniture and markings. The people of Kenya are suffering because there are no bumps and markings in the areas that they are asking. This has been occasioned by the contractor not being on site, therefore, the work has not been finished. It is double jeopardy ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: The Ministry is pursuing funding options in consultation with the National Treasury to find viable financial solutions to pay a significant portion of the outstanding payment for this and other similar stalled projects to facilitate the completion of outstanding works. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. At least I did an earlier introduction about the general status of the funding across the country. The thing I would suggest is that maybe we can plan for safety activities just within the available budget. We will see if we can take care of bumps and the markings, even if it is just signage to say ‘approach slowly.’ view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason you cannot put the markings is perhaps unless they have finished to the required standards. If you put the marking, you will have to remove again and do it. Based on the experience of this problem across the country, I have been asking the engineers whether we can reverse the decision on how roads are completed. We can do this in such a way that every milestone is complete-complete. That means if you have 10 kilometers and a milestone is one kilometer at a given period, you do the one kilometer up to the ... view
• 10 Jul 2024 in Senate: However, the people of Kenya have told us that, yes, we want the roads and, yes, you can get the money, but not at transferring up the cost of the pump by Kshs7. The cost of living is up because fuel creates a problem across the sector. We will sit because we completed the public participation last Monday and then we will go and sit together with the State Department for Petroleum to see if there is a way some other levies can be foregone or do something else. This is so that we concentrate first on raising money for ... view