Lewis Nguyai

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, let me thank the Member for providing quite a lot of information and visiting my office yesterday, so that we could discuss and look at the differing issues. It is true that there was a meeting on 15th December, 2009, and the CDF Tender Committee awarded the tender to Belcon Company Limited. Unfortunately, as per the minutes of 23rd April from the Ministerial Tender Committee, the CDF Tender Committee did not provide certain documents which included the performance bond and other details. They were requested to provide the documents, but they were not able to do ... view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there were quite a number of implementation problems. At first, the particular tenders were advertised by the Ministry of Finance but when they started receiving the tender documents, they realised that they did not have the capacity to evaluate. So, they forwarded all the documents from the CDF back to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government. We then followed the normal procurement procedure and found that many committees within the local CDFs had not met the threshold required by the procurement procedures. Those bureaucracies delayed the process. The intention was to ... view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are looking into the possibility of decentralising the payment process. I would want to inform the House that the challenge we have had is that we only have provisional Local Government Officers, who are basically desk officers. We do not even have District Local Government Officers. So, we are looking at the structures to ensure that there is adequate management, not from a central point but, hopefully, from the county level. view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is true that the Member for Kisumu Town West has been very frustrated, and I engaged my officers for about one-and-half hours yesterday, looking at the problems that his project has. I would want to say that it is possible that there are some challenges which the Ministry has encountered. I would not say that it is necessarily corruption from the Office of the Deputy Prime and Ministry of Local Government but probably, more of structural and implementation challenges. view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the eventual beneficiaries will obviously be the councils. That is a channel we would be willing to consider and probably give further light as to whether it is viable or not. view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, from our consultations with the hon. Member, we are aware that Kachibora does not have any space. The first identification of the market was done through the Economic Stimulus Programme Report, which indicates, on page 41; that the CDF Committee members are the ones who had chosen Kachibora but we are now looking into the issue of reallocating the market. view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am only making reference to the Economic Stimulus Programme Report. It must have been an input from his constituency. Probably, the hon. Member does not have very good control over all the members of his CDF Committee. view
• 17 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have, however, taken into consideration the new location. We will ensure that the market is established at Kapsara. view
• 16 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 16 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: (a) The fire was caused by an electrical fault. view