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Entries 291 to 300 of 1318.
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26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Access culverts have been provided for the public and private institutions, public access roads and major private accesses. However, due to the large number of land sub-division along the road project, sharing of access culverts has been provided where the land terrain allows. (b) In Keumbu Town, shops have encroached on the road reserve leaving no room to construct a wide and shallow drainage with enough capacity to carry storm water and still allow access to the shops. The distance from the shops to the road shoulders leaves no space for ...
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26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in part “b” of my answer, I have indicated that shops have encroached on the road reserves leaving no room to construct the drainage. In part “c”, I have said that through the Kenya Roads Authority, we have issued instructions for extra works to be done to provide a cover drain on Keumbu Township at a cost of Kshs7.5 million. This will address the issues raised by the hon. Member.
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26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have indicated that according to our records, the shops have encroached on the road reserve. Although they have encroached, we did not find the need to demolish the shops because we had sufficient space. However, even when the road ends at the six metre mark, we expect that you do not start building your shop right there because we will still need an area where we can drain the water. However, we are doing whatever we can within the circumstances. We appreciate the role that the shopping centre is playing in the lives of the ...
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26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is the Ministry’s policy to ensure that any access road to a shop or a home, the Ministry has to give consent. You will find that when you do a major road, after every five metres you have an access road; somebody wants to get into their house. This obviously will make the construction of such roads impossible. Instead, for planning purposes, we should have one major service lane that will be able to serve the entire population living on one side of the road instead of having access roads at every point. In areas ...
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26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the road is made up of several sections. We have the Gesusu-Nyabisabo Road, D208, which is a total of 13 kilometres. It is currently open to traffic. The second section is Keumbu-Nyabisabo-Igare Road, E207, which is approximately ten kilometres. The earthworks are complete on the whole section and other works including improving access roads to five market centres along this road, namely, Gesusu, Kiamokama, Nyabisabo, Mogonga and Keumbu are on course. The third section is Igare-Mogonga Road, E1048. The road is approximately 11 kilometres long and only seven kilometers of the earthworks are outstanding. The roads ...
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25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The tenders for construction for Merille-Marsabit have been advertised for prequalification of contractors and supervision consultants. (b) The Merille River-Marsabit Road Project is to be financed jointly by the Government of Kenya and the European Union. The financing agreement was signed on 19th April, 2010. (c)The corridor has been divided into three sections whose current status is as follows:- (i) The Isiolo-Merille Section. The outstanding works, namely the construction of the Serolevi Bridge is expected to be completed in December, 2011 and then we will have achieved 100 per cent completion on ...
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25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have indicated that the procurement process has already begun. At this stage, I have also indicated that the financing agreement has also already been signed. It is my hope that by the end of January, we will have the contractor already on site. However, because this is a donor funded project, we sometimes have to go by their conditions which keep changing. I believe that we should be able to complete the project by 31st January, 2012.
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25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have not indicated that the agreement has been violated in any way. However, there were certain challenges that we faced when we started these projects. One of them had to do with availability of water. Hon. Members will agree that you need enough water to be able to construct this kind of a road. So, one of the things we had agreed with the donors is that before we go to procurement, we have boreholes across the entire section. Sometimes you plan to have a borehole here, but you do not get any water. There are ...
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25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the hon. Member has said is true. But I wish to say that any agreement between the contractor and the community would be purely on ex-gratia basis because it is not part of the contract signed between the Ministry and the contractor. However, we will prevail upon the contractor to ensure that he fulfils his obligations as agreed between him and the community.
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25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is no section of this road that has not taken off because of donors not being able to meet their side of the commitments. As I said earlier, the Isiolo-Merille Section, which is 136 kilometres, is about 99 per cent complete. Once the bridge that is currently under construction is completed in two months’ time; that is, in December of this year, we expect that this road will be fully completed. The original contract sum for this road was Kshs4,875,409,000. However, owing to escalation of costs, it actually rose to Kshs6,318,000,000. The second section of the ...
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