Simeon Nyachae

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 121 to 130 of 226.

• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: In fact, it was not a Land Rover; it was a Toyota Land Cruiser! view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this "gentleman", and the so-called "beautification of Mombasa" has nothing to do with repairs of roads. The Municipality or City Council of Mombasa is covered by the same allocation of funds to go all the way to Ukunda and Malindi; Kshs1.8 billion! Mombasa itself has an allocation of Kshs400 million. As for the job which he was supposed to be inspecting, the contractors were still doing their work. The layout--- In fact, they had only done the first layer. The second layer and the final layer had both not been done. All that happened is that, ... view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: , it is being commandeered by Dr. Mutua! When he arrived at the May 24, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1625 other end, he had no--- When those people had been taken away, incidentally, the contractor and the Resident Engineer, Dr. Mutua remained behind with hon. Mwaboza, and Mr. Orege was standing there wondering what was going on. The next thing, Dr. Mutua called the Pressmen, and they cannot deny it! He distributed this statement to all the Press calling--- view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: This statement was distributed before even any discussion! It had been done here in Nairobi, and it is calling the contractors conmen and what-have-you; they are being cheated--- Which means that the Ministry is not doing anything. That is what it amounts to. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I expected the Ministerial Statement to include the job description of Dr. Mutua! view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally I would like to say that if the Office of the President does not respect the management of that Ministry, we are prepared to hand over and walk out of that office! view
• 24 May 2007 in National Assembly: We are not going to accept--- Who is Mutua? Mutua is not an engineer neither is he an Accounting Officer. He has not received any letter from the Ministry of Finance to account for whatever the public has allocated to that Ministry. Now, this is not the first time Mutua has behaved like this. Mutua has misbehaved again with other contractors. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to go into details because in this House, the next time you will be asked to do this or that. This problem with those contractors started with some funny things which ... view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am going to be very brief. I think if you go through these Rules carefully, you will see that the authority of nomination is through political parties. The political parties will sit down and nominate their persons. Having done that, and presented their names to the House, I do not know why hon. Members of this House would want to take over the responsibility of political parties of nominating a person or rejecting him. That way, hon. Members would be saying that they do not recognise the decision of that party. It is wrong! ... view
• 22 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not quite clear whether I will be able to answer the long questions that have been raised. But let me say this:- First, the contractors have a contract signed between them and the Government through the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. The Ministry of Roads and Public Works has got resident engineers. On the particular incident that is being mentioned, we are aware. We had already told the contractor who is still doing the work--- The work is not finished for us to blame him! A particular spot, which was considered by the resident ... view
• 22 May 2007 in National Assembly: There is no office in the Government which does not have a Minister. If there is a mistake committed by either the contractor or the engineer, I am prepared to answer it here. However, if something is done outside my portfolio, I cannot take responsibility. This has happened more than once. It has happened in Meru where the same officer arrested our own people. All that I would seek although it is not for this House is that if the Chief Engineer, Permanent Secretary, Provincial Engineer and, therefore, the Minister cannot do it, why do they not take it? view
• 10 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the second time the hon. Member who raised this Question has failed to turn up. Yesterday, a number of my colleagues did not answer their Questions. As for my Ministry, we were here to answer this Question. You deferred it because that hon. Member was not present. But when you referred to the specific Ministries, today, the Standard Newspaper included the Ministry of Roads and Public Works among the ones that you reprimanded for being absent. That is misleading and actually mischievous. Either the reporter is irresponsible or has some wickedness against the Minister ... view