Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: I say this with all my heart. I do not want to praise myself. I am the only Cabinet Secretary who has invited as many counties as possible, without considering their political side. I am now in County No.26. They come for an open discussion. We ask ourselves how we shall deliver on this very difficult road function in the absence of the budget that we have been given. view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: I speak to my friends here. We feel the pain of our voters when they tell us that they are stuck in mad and the roads are not progressing. This pain is a collective responsibility of leadership at a time like this. I promise this House that I will not sleep until we succeed to return all the contractors on site. There is light at the end of the tunnel. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: Correct. view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I will be brief in responding to Hon. Sunkuli’s question. As I said earlier, I do not have that answer. We should all have an honest conversation. In fact, at the beginning of next year, you could organise a retreat or session between the House and our Ministry to ask ourselves whether the Kenya Roads Act should remain as it is. What will we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: do with KeRRA? Many roads have annual maintenance requirements. So, should they continue using 10 per cent or 22 per cent of their budget to maintain murrum roads while most of them have been upgraded to tarmac? Should KeRRA be abandoned completely and left without resources being allocated? Sometimes KeRRA ends up advertising roads through the support of the public participation budget. They stage improvements and this is how the Chebole Road got money for maintenance. One of the reasons why I was excited to respond to this question is for us to find ways of addressing the 5,000 kilometres ... view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: the first project where the contractor was told to redo and tarmac the road. I believe once we support him, he will tarmac it. The road from Garissa to Isiolo is also ongoing. Regarding the Modogashe-Isiolo-Kulamawe Road, the contractor is on site and has done almost 10 per cent of the project. If a good number of projects in the northern part of our country are delivered, this will help us deal with insecurity and marginalisation. The construct of this road will cost not less than Ksh60 billion. I invite Hon. Members to continue implementing projects like building hospitals, fibre ... view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as a matter of fact, the question asked by my friend Hon. Millie regarding the roads that we supported in Mfangano Island through the emergency funding... Mfangano Island is one of the marginalised places with no single road and no access to the island. We thought it is one of the places that should have emergency support. view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: The plans were done in the previous administration but were not supported. When I got into office, I had the choice to sign for allocation of those resources or to go back to the political cocoons of saying that the Member of Parliament for that area is from this political party and withdraw signing of those resources. Instead, being a public servant, I did what is right by making sure that Mfangano Island gets its rightful share. It is not Mfangano Island only. Hon. Millie knows that there are further resources supporting roads in Homa Bay County. view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: I agree that the report which was a question from Hon. Omboko Milemba and Hon. Millie Odhiambo is that the information is with the Budget and Appropriations Committee where Hon. Millie sits but I do not want to say that. In fact, they passed that budget themselves. If the Budget Policy Office was to be asked today to bring it and print for every Member of Parliament, we would have it in this House. I would struggle more to get that report than yourselves but nevertheless, and since I respect the orders of this House and has been requested by ... view
• 6 Dec 2023 in National Assembly: The Whip of the Majority Party has said that some roads in some places are ongoing under the RMLF. It is not allowed for RMLF to fully support development. What happens is that there is a process called ‘stage improvement’ that we try to support and sometimes it is for the roads that are worn out that are being maintained. It rarely happens that you start from zero using RMLF. There are cases like the one I said of Lamu where, because of outright marginalisation, we end up doing it. We want to make sure that those people and areas ... view