Lee Kinyanjui

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• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Lastly, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are also in the process of ensuring that where there is collusion between our officers and the contractors, where the specifications of the contract are contravened, we are able to take action on these particular officers. You are aware that there are specific roads that were done and are completely of poor standards many years back, and the consultants or the engineers continue doing many other roads. We are in the process of ensuring that such engineers who supervise roads that later on collapse are not allowed to continue doing that work. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for every road contract that is going on, there is a clear structure of supervision, starting with the resident engineer – who in most cases we actually outsource from the private sector – and in cases where we are using our local engineers as resident engineers, we also have external measures to ensure that the contract is followed strictly. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we also have auditors who come to the projects from time to time to ensure that we have strict audit controls and, thereafter after the project is complete, we have what we call a defect liability period. This is the period within which if there are any defects, the contractor is liable and we will not pay him the full amount of the contract until this period is over. What we hope to do in days to come is to extend the defect liability period. Previously, it has been 12 months, we have pushed it to ... view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we came up with a document we call the “Road Sector Investment Program,” which clearly stipulates our plan for the next 10 years and how we hope to achieve that. However, all this is pegged on funding because it is not possible for us to achieve all our targets without support from Treasury and other donors. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: So, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, indeed, we have a program that clearly stipulates which roads we would want to do, the connection and logic behind it. That document is available to the public and I can avail it to the hon. Member. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I have indicated, within this financial year we can have only one December, and that December is about four months from now. I want to assure the hon. Member that, indeed, we will have already commenced work by then to ensure that the road is completed and that members of public from this particular region can enjoy this road. view
• 5 Sep 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view