Paul Kimani Wamatangi

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• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it is Sen. Wamatangi. view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to present the Report of the Standing Committee on Roads and Transportation on the Petition on the delayed compensation by National Land Commission (NLC) to landowners affected by the Construction of the Eldoret Town Bypass Project in Uasin Gishu County. view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: The Committee on Roads and Transportation is established under Standing Order No.218(3) of the Senate Standing Orders and is mandated to consider all matters relating to transport, roads, public works, construction and maintenance of roads, rails and buildings, air and seaports. In executing its mandate, the Committee oversees the Ministry of Transport, infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development. On 27th September, 2018, pursuant to the Senate Standing Orders No.226(1)(a) and No. 230(2)(b), the Speaker reported to the Senate that persons affected by the construction of Eldoret Town By-pass road on Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County had petitioned the Senate on delayed compensation ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: Sittings in Uasin Gishu in Eldoret and the Committee on Roads and Transportation engaged the petitioners at that time. We had several discussions with them and visited the bypass to address the following issues- (1) Delayed compensation of the owners of the said parcels of land; (2) Unexplained undervaluation of certain parcels of land; (3) Phased compensation for the compulsorily acquired parcels of land. The land owners felt that the NLC would chose, in a skewed way, who to pay and what not to pay. The Committee found that some neighbours had been compensated for a parcel of land yet ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: County Government, but some people had already been paid close to Kshs350 million yet bona fide land owners had not been paid. (5) There was also an issue on low payments of disturbance allowance to affected landowners. We engaged on all these and by way of reporting to this Committee, I want to highlight the main issues that we found. We realised that some of the documents issued by NLC, that one would be used to prove that their land had been taken, were actually photocopies. Some of those documents were issued in a hotel or a room in the ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: Surprisingly, at conceptualization, all construction costs are taken into account except compensation. The person on whose land the road will lie will have to wait until the Government looks for funds somewhere else. We know the kind of problems that we have with mobilization of resources by the Government. Sometimes you find that county administrators are used to coerce the local people to allow the contractor to access their land and start building on it. The person waits for the compensation and yet the people who are building the road – mostly the Chinese – have new trucks, tractors and ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: done, the Government should take up the land only where they can pay. This is because if they take all the land, they will value somebody’s land at the end of the project and give them a value of say Kshs2 million, and wait for three years before they pay. At the end of those three years, the value of the land will not be Kshs 2 million, it would have appreciated. Other factors would have affected this and by that time the Government will not pay interest. We directed that the Government should take what they can afford to ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy to report on the issue that first came here, about the demolition of a school in Ole Sirkon when the contractor was blasting that the reconstruction of that school is ongoing and the people were compensated. The long and short of it is; that the duty of this House and the Committees is to put our foot down to ensure that Kenyans get not only value, but also fairness; and that they are treated rightfully according to the laws of this land. view
• 5 Dec 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to table this Report. view
• 4 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, Wednesday, 4th December, 2019. view