Kipchumba Murkomen

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• 3 May 2023 in Senate: First, you saw the situation of the pending bills. Our China Government friends were gracious enough to tell us to come to the table to have the conversation. If we are able to make progressive conversations, it will help us to elevate the situation that we are in. If we do so, then we can use the money that we are going to get to deal with the issue of new roads in places like Tana River County. Secondly, I cannot remember all contractors of the head. If this question had come early, definitely we would have made sure that ... view
• 3 May 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Hon. Sen. Dullo, my former Deputy, on this very important issue of marginalization. As I said earlier, if you look at the current Equalization Fund, Isiolo County has two projects that are still pending; the Kubby - Tullo Bridge. They have not yet constructed or utilized that money. In your account, you have Kshs247 million that is going towards that bridge. You must have seen KeRRA, has currently advertised for that road. We have also Kipsing’-Oldin Bridge, which has been allocated Kshs120 million from the equalization fund. Once it is awarded, we will ... view
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• 3 May 2023 in Senate: the LAPSSET road from Lamu to Garissa and from Garissa to Isiolo, it will not make sense if we leave them murram. It will not open the road be for the purpose that it was intended to make a new corridor for taking our goods to both South Sudan and Southern Ethiopia with a combined population of over 70 million. Our objective is to make sure that the road is done. When it comes to infrastructure, in another five years, the question of Isiolo and all other marginalized counties will have been fairly addressed through these Horn of Africa projects. ... view
• 3 May 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if my friend Sen. Chute had applied himself to the question, he would understand that I was answering a question: Could the Cabinet Secretary state the distance in kilometres of tarmacked roads the national Government has constructed and then list the ones in Tana River? Had I not done so, I would not have responded to the question. If he followed my response, he would have appreciated. You cannot say 442 kilometres, even if equally distributed, would have been assumed to be a share of Tana River is a fair distribution. I have said that the principle ... view
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• 3 May 2023 in Senate: However, when you do not discuss the distance, then those counties will never get roads. It means that since the population is small, from one position to another, let those two or three people walk as others use tarmac road. I believed it then and I believe it more now that the only way we can unlock the potential of a country like ours and for regions like the north with enormous resources and potential in terms of development, infrastructure is the only answer. There is nothing that can answer the problem of the north, except infrastructure. If we construct ... view
• 3 May 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank my friend Sen. Veronica Maina for this question. It speaks to the core issue of pending bills and roads that are pending. I do not know if she was insinuating that in Sen. Mungatana’s analogy, the Kandara-Mau Mau Road was malaria and the one for Tana River is heart attack. I want to correct an impression that might be easily created about the roads that have not been constructed. Most of those roads, including the Mau Mau Road, have been pending for over two years. Mau Mau Road was started like three years ago and ... view
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• 3 May 2023 in Senate: The other day, I was in Gatundu South, Kiambu County. The contractor who is there has been there forever. Although it is a special case, the contractor is incompetent because we do not have a pending certificate from him. We are working on a road-by-road basis. However, I can assure you that our dream is that in the next three years, we should complete all the pending roads. Nonetheless, let me also warn us here, that the Government as a whole has found itself with a challenge of debt. There was unregulated borrowing that went on in the last two ... view