Maina Kamanda

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is true that street lighting is not working on that road, but the Ministry has promised it is going to work on it. We do not work for the Executive, but I can only read what they have prepared. They have indicated that they are going to repair the street lighting. view
• 20 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to assure the Member that they are going to do that. The other question is about who is going to do the access road. They have not indicated here, but I believe that it should be the developer. So, we are going to make sure that the developer is compelled to do that. The other issue is about the traffic jam and the fact that the road is also narrow. I concur with hon. Baiya that, that is a very busy road. I am also going to report to the Ministry to see whether ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to respond to the Statement sought by hon. Mwadime. He rose on the Floor of the House and requested for a Statement from my Committee. In the Statement, he sought to know when works on Voi-Mwatate-Wundanyi Road A23 and C104 will be completed. In his Statement request, he stated as follows:- “This road has been under construction for the last two years with no sign of completion. The Government has not paid the contractor the full amount owed since 2013. The road works were due to be completed in March 2013 but ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. Hon.Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply as follows:- (a) The amount owed to the contractor is Kshs.442 million. However, the budget provision for the Financial Year 2013/2014 is Kshs.520 million on that project. But due to budget constraints, the Ministry was able to pay the contractor Kshs.437 million. The Government is making efforts to clear the outstanding amount in due course. (b) The revised completion date still remains 15th March, 2014 as per the contract agreement. I know the date has expired. The contractor, however, owing to the payment delays due to the budgetary constraints on the ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I appreciate the concerns of the hon. Member. But the hon. Member will recall that we adjourned the meeting at that particular day so that we could summon the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Treasury. It has been a major concern in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure that the budgetary allocation to the Ministry was not enough. For that reason, we agreed that we had to summon the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and we did that. We met yesterday and he gave an undertaking that between now and the end of February, ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, no! It is between now and April. He is going to release about Kshs15 billion so that all the on-going projects that have stalled can be fast-tracked. I want to assure the Member here that, between now and April, the money will have been released to the contractor. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, ongoing projects have been the concern of my Committee. By the time the last Government went into elections, there are some people in the Ministry who gave out so many contracts without considering the fact that there was no money. They committed the Government and awarded tenders knowing that there was no money. But because there was rush to go to elections, anybody who was in the Government forced the Ministry to award tenders. That is the problem The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: that has now come to the Cabinet Secretary; that the budget provision for that work was not even there. We are now fighting to get those jobs completed. That is why we are pleading with Members that, even before we undertake new projects, we want first to get money to complete all the jobs that were awarded at that particular time. I also want to say to the Member here: Some contractors were given jobs, but they were not given the money. It is on that basis that we have requested the Treasury to fund the Ministry so that it ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to respond to the Member and say the following: Proper procedures were adhered to when all those tenders were awarded. But at that particular time of elections, that is where the problem started. That is because everybody wanted to have a road and, somehow, the officers agreed to do the jobs. But I do not want to say that they did not follow the right procedures in awarding those tenders. They followed the procedures in awarding the tenders. But as of now, we want the Ministry to have a policy. I want to say ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is a policy in the Government as far as all the work is concerned. I want to confirm to the hon. Member here that we have done a lot of work as the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public 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