Maina Kamanda

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• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Works and Housing. We have asked the Government to allocate enough funds to complete all the stalled infrastructural projects in every corner of this country. We have been promised that funds are available for all those projects. Even the contractors wanted to go on strike because of non-payment of their dues. However, we have convinced the Treasury to release the money that is owed to the contractors – the Kshs25 billion. We will clear all the ongoing projects once we get the money. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as far as I can recall, maybe, we had an interaction over a cup of tea but I cannot remember a request for a Statement that was sought by hon. Makau. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute and support this Motion. I want to thank the Chairman and the Committee for providing, at least, this time round, money for KERRA and KURA. We all know that this was a big problem last time. But this time round, I want to assure hon. Members that money is already there in the Budget. But my concern and the concern of my Committee is how the infrastructure is being handled by the people running the Government and, more so, the National Treasury. There can never be any ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Minister for Local Government and the PS. I think this is the gap that we need to fill so that we do not have wastage in that line. The other aspect is that we all fought together for KERRA and KURA. I thought we should also fight together for health services. Time was not ripe to devolve health services to the county governments and that is why we are having a lot of problems with doctors resigning. Very soon, we are going to hear that nurses are also resigning. We must decide, as a House, to tackle this matter here. ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute and support this Motion. I want to thank the Chairman and the 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
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Committee for providing, at least, this time round, money for KeRRA and KURA. We all know that this was a big problem last time. But this time round, I want to assure hon. Members that money is already there in the budget. But my concern and the concern of my Committee is how the infrastructure is being handled by the people running the Government and, more so, the National Treasury. There can never be any growth in development if you kill infrastructure. I want to echo a word that I was given by my friend there, hon. (Eng.) Rege, who ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. First, let me clarify one point that was raised today. My Committee had a meeting today in which we summoned--- view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I wanted to draw your attention to the office of the Clerk because this confusion comes from his office. When you see two Cabinet Secretaries invited at the same time to two Committees, where does that problem emanate from? It emanates from the Office of the Clerk. This is because you cannot summon two Cabinet Secretaries at the same time to appear before two Committees. So, that is an area which we need to look into. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the other point I want to raise is that I have no quarrel about who takes up the issue even if it is my Committee. This is because all these Committees belong to this House. However, the only problem is when another Committee investigates a matter when in fact another one had started doing the same earlier. If we can agree that we combine the two Committees and have a joint sitting, I do not see any problem with that because at the end of the day the results will be reported to this House. All Members of ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there have been a lot of complaints from many parastatal heads on micromanaging their institutions. Most of the Committee Chairs are micromanaging parastatals. Like hon. Midiwo said, you get a small issue and you say that you will summon so and so tomorrow. On a matter appearing in the Press, you want to waste a lot of time calling so and so. view