Maina Kamanda

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: e) Residents of Nyeri Town Constituency on the use of asbestos as roofing materials. view
• 4 Apr 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I can recall the Hon. Member came to our Committee. To the best of my knowledge, we have executed all Petitions. I need him to apprise me now. I can tell you he attended and interviewed the officers. Now, I do not know what he is referring to. view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2015 on the National Building Maintenance Policy, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 14th June 2016. Hon. Speaker, from the policy, it is important to note that buildings and infrastructure are important national assets and investments. They are measures of our national wealth and capital formation. The state of a building environment reflects complex social and economic factors, and the level of prosperity of the community and the nation. As a result, maintenance and repair of the building environment ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: (i) To keep or restore the building and associate infrastructure to current acceptable standards; (ii) to sustain the value of the building; and, (iii)for visual appeal. Building maintenance process includes inspection, testing, planning, organising, servicing, repair, refurbishing, rebuilding, rehabilitation, reclamation, renewal adaption and setting standards. The formation of the National Building and Maintenance Policy is, therefore, justified for the following purposes: (i) Run down investments that are uneconomical and unsustainable. (ii) Existence of multiple registrations on buildings’ maintenance. (iii)Lack of national maintenance policy. (iv) Backlog of maintenance works that is expensive and difficult to clear. (v) Stick buildings that are ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The policy will create education and training framework for maintenance of personnel at all levels. It will further help in the creation of employment for building maintenance personnel such as plumbers, cleaners and electricians. The policy is presented in eight chapters and each provides for the problem statement, key issues and policy options that address identified issues. In conclusion, the policy will be of great importance in the advancement of the construction industry and specifically, it will help to give proper direction to maintenance of buildings across the country. With those few remarks, I request my Vice-Chairman, Hon. (Eng.) Mahamud, ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With your permission, I will donate one minute to the Member for Gatanga. view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I reply to this Motion, I thank the Members who have contributed to it. Many issues have been raised by the Members. There are issues like disability and access to buildings. Hon. Murugi talked about asbestos. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are a Member of our Committee and you can remember we agreed that asbestos should not be used anymore. We dealt with that matter and I think there is no agency in the Government that can use asbestos now. This policy addresses all those issues including maintenance of buildings. The mentality of ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No 2 of 2016 on the National Slum Upgrading and Prevention Policy, laid on the Table of the House on 29th July, 2016. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The Government, through a wide consultative process, formulated a National Slum Upgrading and Prevention Policy with the aim of producing policy whose goal is to guide the country towards upgrading existing slums and preventing emergence of new slums in a coordinated and systematic manner. Previously, local authorities developed affordable housing for low income households in several towns and cities. But with time, due to corruption and lack of effective monitoring, most of these units became illegally privatised with the local authorities getting only minimal or no cent at all or owners getting the market value rates. An example is the ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With your permission, I would like to donate two minutes to the Member for Gatanga and one minute to the Member for Gichugu. view