Lee Kinyanjui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1201 to 1210 of 1318.

• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (b) The Ministry has no immediate plans for tarmacking the following roads. Kasigau-Voi; Road D541, Sigalla-Voi; Road D539, and Mbololo-Voi; D540. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (C) As I have pointed out, plans are at an advanced stage in securing funds to tarmac the Voi-Taveta Road; A23, and funds for the work will be included in the Budget for the 2009/2010 Financial Year. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have taken up the request and I will be able to follow up and ensure that we allocate funds for gravelling of that road. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to reiterate my answer where I indicated that the Government is at an advanced stage in negotiating for funding with the European Union (EU) and we are confident that we will be able to include it in this year's financial budget. As to earlier promises or pledges by other Governments, I quite clearly cannot take responsibility for that. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I have stated, the Voi-Taveta Road which is A23 is about 111 kilometres long and at present, the Voi-Mwatate section which is of bitumen standard is 25 kilometres, while the rest of the road to Taveta is of gravel standard. Construction and supervision is estimated to cost about Kshs7.5 billion and as we wait for that money to be availed in the next financial year, my Ministry is in the process of allocating funds for spots improvement which are still being done. I wish to state that in the year 2007/2008, we allocated Kshs1.58 million ... view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have got the request and indeed we shall put it in our priority list pending availability of funds. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (a) Yes, I am aware that this road within Meru Municipality experiences traffic congestion at rush hour. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (b) My Ministry has already initiated a road sector investment programme for improvement of rural and urban roads for the year 2009 to 2023. The programme will take into account provision as well as improvement of facilities for non-motorised traffic so as to decongest the concerned area. During the implementation of this programme, the Meru-Makutano Road will be considered. Further, the Meru-Makutano Road D6 is approximately four kilometres long. It starts at Meru Town centre and ends at Makutano junction that is B6 and C91. It is a section of the larger Meru-Maua Road C91. This road was rehabilitated in ... view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while appreciating the hon. Member's concern, I think it is important to note that the Ministry works on a specific budget. We will not be able to make short-term commitments because of lack of funds. As I have stated, we are in the process of coming up with a long-term plan that will take care of congestion, especially in urban centres to address the issue of added traffic that is often a cause of this headache. However, we will look at this issue and whenever funds are available, we will work on it. view