Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Nov 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, when the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations return their verdict on this particular Bill – earlier on, I asked Sen. Abbas, who is the Chairperson of this Committee, and I have had the opportunity to listen to County Assembly's Forum, who shared their views and input on this particular Bill. It will be important to note what their contributions would have been and how they intend the Bill to be improved. However, this is the basis upon which we are beginning this conversation on the need to ensure that MCAs just like we who serve in ... view
• 20 Nov 2024 in Senate: terms, applicable clauses, and organisation of state officer who shall join and the scope of the Bill, which is to the extent and range of those who may access services of this particular scheme. Part II of the Bill comprises clauses six to 21, which provide for the establishment of the scheme. It establishes the County Retirement Scheme Fund and its board of trustees. It provides the procedure for the appointment of the trustees and the necessary qualifications. We do not want any person who has the opportunity to arise and claim that they should be allowed the chance to ... view
• 20 Nov 2024 in Senate: You know, Madam Temporary Speaker--- Sorry, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I have noted that change in Chair. I was pretty much surprised to address Madam Temporary Speaker, only to notice she was behind me walking by. It is assumed what a contribution to poverty is – where, when they say poverty is a vicious cycle, how many times actually people contribute to their poverty by ensuring that they do not join any pension scheme, and eventually upon their retirement, they have to rely on members of the public or members of their family to sustain their life. This should be ... view
• 20 Nov 2024 in Senate: employed adult in the Republic contributes to NSSF. However, over and above, there are many other pension schemes that people contribute to and hope that in their retirement in future, they can draw from. I hope that, eventually, we can have all our public servants have a fund set out for them so that you do not have to go through what public servants go through, like police and teachers, by queuing at Bima House for you to get your file approved. Most of the time, this is money that has been deducted from them, and I know we have ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the invitation. I also appreciate you for congratulating me. I thank the House for approving my appointment, this being my first time to come into this Chamber since my re-appointment. It is always exciting to be here. It is a great privilege, knowing that many Kenyans would have had an opportunity to appear before such an august House. I was asked four questions as you have mentioned. For the purpose of The Hansard, I will restate them and then respond. The first question was to apprise the state of the preparedness of the country in ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in National Assembly: This is a new project. Ground-breaking was done on 31st March this year. The progress so far is 23 per cent. The works are ongoing. We are delivering this together with the Ministry of Defence, which is the contracted agency of the Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports. The other stadium is the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani. It is being renovated to have 55,000-seater capacity. The expected date of completion is December this year. The main works that are being done to refurbish the stadium is the installation of a new roof which will have a greater ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in National Assembly: Stadium shall be the training facility. The works will be done to make sure that they are up to standard as training facilities. The second part of this Question focuses on the condition of the key sports facilities in the country, including the maintenance, modernisation and sustainability of hosting international events. I will give a breakdown of the current conditions of key sports facilities in the country. We have about 12 stadia that had been promised from the time the Jubilee Government administration came to office in 2013. Some of them have become monuments of shame across the country. That ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in National Assembly: then been integrated to the prototype designs that have been prepared by KSTVET. The project is to be re-advertised based on those prototype provisions that have been given. Under the new design, it will have a 100-bed capacity hostel for athletes training. Ruring’u International Stadium in Nyeri County has an overall completion status of 75 per cent. Initially, it was to have a 2,000-seater pavilion, which was the objective then, a FIFA standard football field, a borehole and associated water storage facilities, electrical and mechanical works, eight-lane track with field events capacity and a VIP lift. The same contractor, as ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in National Assembly: The Ministry, through collaboration with KSTVET, has developed a prototype design and bills of quantities for different categories of stadia as I read earlier. They are 20,000, 15,000, 10,000 and up to 5,000-seater. We are reviewing the designs and bill of quantities for completion of all stalled and incomplete stadia as I read earlier. I have given my team two weeks, then we review and start processes of paying whatever is pending in order to make sure that we complete the pending stadiums. We do not want another round of lamentations as to why we have stalled projects. The Ministry ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the second last part of the Question was how we facilitate measures that we put in place to ensure timely preparation, coordination, management and facilitation of teams to represent the country in various disciplines. The Ministry of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports has a key responsibility of supporting teams that are representing Kenya in international competition in various disciplines. The Ministry usually enters the teams in international competitions that are held outside the country, and also while hosting competitions here. The Ministry has put in place the following measures to ensure that our teams are well prepared, ... view