Simeon Nyachae

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will, maybe, invite Prof. Kibwana to count trees on my plantations. I love trees, probably, more than him. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to, once again, thank hon. Members. I, personally, my colleague in the Ministry and the officers do not feel that there has been any negative contribution. We feel that you have done more to educate us on how to serve this country. Therefore, when you draw our attention to an area that has not been considered, I always use a traditional message. If you have a boma with ... view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT a sum not exceeding Kshs8,968,895,720 be issued from the Consolidated Fund to complete the sum necessary to meet the expenditure during the year ending 30th June, 2007, in respect of:- Vote 13 - Ministry of Roads and Public Works view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, we have decided to enhance the training at Ngong College and Kisii College, not only for our own officers, but also for the local contractors, because we cannot continue relying on foreign contractors. view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: We are there! view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, this is to increase our efforts to catch up with stalled projects. This year, this money is intended for 50 stalled projects countrywide. view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, this money is meant to make the equipment operational in the 16 regional centres. The machinery has already been sent to the regional centres. If I am required to give the names of those regional centres, I will do so because I have the list. The equipment arrived and we dispatched it to the 16 regional centres in the country. There is no regional area which has been left out. view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, we have increased the allocation for feasibility studies and designs because it has become necessary to design more roads. The demand for new roads has increased. Unless we do feasibility studies and design work, we cannot market our projects to donors. So, we must have ready information. We do not want the World Bank to come and say: "We will send you somebody to do feasibility studies before we give you money for road construction." If we wait for the World Bank to provide us with experts to do such works, it will take a ... view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, it is extremely important that we support the Project Supervision policy for the simple reason that where we have an ongoing project--- For instance, where we have an ongoing project like the reconstruction of the Timboroa Road, which passes near Mr. Kipchumba's place, when the contractor is on site, he has to be supervised. One of the reasons why we have many pending bills is because we have not been supervising contractors. They come and tell us that they have used additional material when it is not the case. When they get one of our ... view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, for every major road contract that we have to carry out with foreign firms, counter- part funds have to come from the Central Government. That is the money that is included here for major roads, including the Northern corridor. We are expected to make a contribution to support what has been given by foreign donors. view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution. view