Lee Kinyanjui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 631 to 640 of 1318.

• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the commitment was not specific to the 2008/2009 Financial Year. However, as I have indicated, that particular project is ready. We will table it before this House for hon. Members to give their input. That is the project that will inform all the future developments as opposed to the previous times when we had a very haphazard way of determining which road to invest in or to upgrade. I would like to take this opportunity to request hon. Members that, once we lay the Report on the Table, they are requested to bring their input. That ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is the criteria we have given in that particular project. We have not named which roads will be considered in particular. However, we will share that with hon. Members at the opportune moment. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, it is true that there is an anomaly in the sense that we have some Class “A” and Class “B” roads which are not tarmacked, whereas some roads of lower classifications are tarmacked. It is for this reason that my Ministry has come up with the Road Sector Investment Programme, which, as I have already indicated, we will present to this House. The programme will inform future development and decisions as to which roads will be tarmacked. The hon. Members of this House will be able to make an input into that policy. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not satisfied with the current classification of our roads. It is for that reason that my Ministry engaged the services of a consultant to be able to re-classify all roads in Kenya. Once that study is complete, we will also be able to share the results with hon. Members, so that we can upgrade our roads to the appropriate classes. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will undertake to do that in the next 30 days. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is, indeed, true that we have a number of roads on which we have been able to carry out the design, but we have not been able to get the relevant funding for us to be able to undertake the upgrading exercise. However, this is a necessary process, because we would not be able to know what amounts of money are required without designs. So, without designs, you would not know what requests to make to Treasury or to other donors who would come up. Once we are through with the design work, we ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, all that I can assure the hon. Member is that, indeed, the roads in question are within our priority listing. However, as you may be aware, we normally forward our proposals to the Treasury. Upon reviews of what amounts will be available for the next budget, they are able to give us a particular ceiling. I can assure the hon. Member that we will, indeed, try to prioritize and also ask the support of hon. Members in this House. For the construction of all those roads to materialize, the Ministry will require a bigger budget. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I may not have the exact figure that we require to maintain this road to motorable condition but as soon as we get the estimates for the repairs, we will liaise with the hon. Member to ensure that the road is maintained up to the time when we can do the full rehabilitation. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank the Mover of this Motion, hon. Wamalwa, for bringing this wonderful Motion to this House, which I must say is long overdue. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: I want to start by saying that any country which hopes to solve the problem of unemployment must clearly consider the issue of industrialisation. As we are all aware, unemployment continues to be one of our biggest challenges. It is, indeed, a time bomb. It is said that every year, we have over 500,000 young people who join the job market, but who cannot be absorbed. It is unfortunate that a product like fertilizer, whose demand is readily available within the country and regionally, continue to be imported and, therefore, making the cost of agricultural production high and denying young ... view