Moody Arthur Awori

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Minister for Water and Irrigation, I beg to reply. (a) The Government has undertaken 11 water projects in Teso District since the year 2003. (b) Private contractors were contracted to construct Malaba/Kocholia and Angurai Water Projects. The contractors included M/s Beo Agencies, M/s Joima Enterprises, M/s Yoga General Contractors, M/s Alakara Building Contractors, M/s Angurai Investments and M/s Machiri Limited. The rest of the projects were undertaken in-house by the Ministry through the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation. (c) The total amount earmarked for water projects in Teso District was Kshs64,750,000. However, ... view
• 14 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, 11 projects were undertaken, and the breakdown of the amounts involved in Kenya Shillings were as follows:- view
• 14 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I remember correctly, the Assistant Minister who answered this Question before it was deferred offered to accompany the Member for Amagoro, so that they could visit the 11 projects. Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I revisit that offer and arrange for the Assistant Minister or his Minister to accompany the hon. Member. That is because I have an interest in Amagoro as the hon. Member knows. I would really like to get to the bottom of that matter. So, if it is all right, we will fix a mutual date since we are going on recess on ... view
• 7 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Minister of State for Youth Affairs, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry reserved Kshs210 million for the constituencies of which Kshs118 million has been disbursed to finance 2,902 enterprises of youth groups. The amount set aside for disbursement through the financial intermediaries was Kshs690 million. Of which Ksh305 million, has been released to finance 8,035 youth businesses. (b) Disbursement status for Gucha through constituency fund is as follows: Constituency Youth GroupsAmount(Kshs) South Mugirango 21 1 million Bomachage 201 million Bobasi 241 million Subtota l653 million A further Kshs170,100 has been disbursed to ... view
• 7 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, they will receive their money as quickly as possible. They will get their money in the next few weeks. view
• 7 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know that they are giving out Kshs47,500. An amount of Kshs2,500 is used for expenses. view
• 7 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is really not collateral that is being requested. The intermediaries are using groups, so that when there are, for example 20 youth, each one of them is guaranteeing the other. This is a system that has been used very successfully in helping people in rural areas. It is very satisfactory. view
• 7 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, every district has got a Youth Officer and intermediaries who are training these youths. We also had a UNDP conference where we addressed the issue of training. We are not just disbursing the money. We have got to make sure that the youths are properly trained in entrepreneurship, so that they can get the money to benefit them. view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons, I beg to reply. (a) A total of 404,097 identity cards have been processed and issued to the public since 19th February, 2007 after the production of identity cards commenced after stalling in August, 2006. (b) A detailed statistical breakdown of identity cards issued to each district countrywide is as in Appendix I which I hope the hon. Member has got. view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I ask your indulgence then for you to defer this 2874 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 1, 2007 Question, so that the Appendix can be supplied to the hon. Member for him to study it and prepare for supplementary questions? view