Kiplagat Jackson Mandago

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 501 to 504 of 504.

• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: integrate the development of this housing with capacity building of our contractors and all our young people in our universities, so that we build local capacity. In the future, local contractors should undertake all these kinds of construction. I say this because the national Government commenced the program of constructing the Expressway, which expended over Kshs60 billion to Kshs70 billion from the national coffers. The technical knowhow was with the foreign contractors. You can see their multitude--- view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have no objection. Being a ‘mono,’ I should be willing to be informed so that I learn. view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I agree but from Sen. Faki’s statement, he ‘thinks’ so, he is not sure himself. The reason we need to integrate with training is so that we have capacity that, that project had a lot of structural constructions, that required very high expertise. Our universities and local contractors, if within the framework would have been involved in that project, within three or four-years’ time, it will be unnecessary to have international tenders for them to carry. The impact of that in the economy is that when we have local contractors doing such volume of work, the ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is an important Motion. As the Senator for Uasin Gishu County and having served as a governor, the importance of the SBC cannot be understated. We need to get the Senate to its feet in order to discharge its mandate. The blame should not be on us when county governments are waiting for this House to make important decisions to enable them unlock some funds that are being held because of the laws that we need to amend. We need to have the SBC as soon as possible. I would like to persuade my colleagues on ... view