Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1281 to 1290 of 1641.

• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: I accept. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when the award was given, in the tender, there was no separate recurrent, equipment and installation expenditure costs. The tender was awarded at Kshs135 million. What is there is only the breakdown which gave the installation, equipment and then recurrent expenditures separately and that is what came to Kshs135 million. Therefore, I do not know where they are getting this idea that there was Kshs110 million. This amount of Kshs110 million was only for installation and the equipment itself, then recurrent expenditure. That is what was awarded; the award was Kshs135 million. There is nowhere that ... view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have said that there was also a requirement for maintenance and servicing of the equipment for a period of five years. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The installation cost--- view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Alliance Technologies Limited were the lowest in this tender and they tendered for Kshs110 million--- view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have explained that the Kshs110 million was for the cost of equipment and installation. The balance was for the maintenance of the equipment for over a period of five years. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the entire supplies contracts, there is always another contract component for maintenance. I do not know whether the hon. Member is hearing it for the first time, but this is very normal in all the contracts. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. I wish to assure this House that there is adequate stock of currency, both notes and coins in circulation in the country. The amount of coins in circulation has been on the increase year-to-year, and as such, the increasing demand has been fully met. The Government, through the Central Bank of Kenya, will continue to increase issuance of currency to commercial banks through its branches located in Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and at the Head Office in Nairobi to meet the existing demand. The Government has ordered for 85.96 million pieces of coins ... view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have just started receiving the coins. We are distributing them through the channels which I have mentioned. Therefore, they are in circulation. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are some problems in certain areas where we do not have enough branches for banks or microfinance institutions to help in the distribution of the coins. However, generally, even where we have enough banks, the other problem which arises is the careless manner in which our people keep coins. They tend to keep them aside. They do not put them into circulation. That could be one of the causes of that problem. However, we shall try to distribute as many coins as the economy would require. view