Dr. Simon Ogari

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to beg for your indulgence, that of the House and the Questioner that this Question was to be responded to by my substantive Minister who is well acquainted with the matters raised therein. Unfortunately, my Minister is stuck upcountry. So, I request the Chair and the Questioner if we can have this Question being deferred maybe to this afternoon or any earliest opportunity like tomorrow so that the Minister can make it to this House to answer it. view
• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: I oblige, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was just trying to find out when this Question that we have just left will be coming back. When have you ordered for it to be on the Order Paper? view
• 15 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: No, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a)The Government’s plan to establish a technology city to promote Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO)/Information Technology (IT) enabling services for wealth and employment creation is progressing well. The city will be developed through a private/public partnership financing model where the Government will concentrate on provision of the necessary basic infrastructures and policy and legal framework, in accordance with the best global practices. (b)As concerns the latest progress, the Government has made tremendous achievement as demonstrated in the following activities. (i) The Konza Technopolis Development Authority that will oversee development of the project has been ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: (vii) Preparation for investors’ conference scheduled for 7th to 8th August, 2012 is ongoing. This will be held next week, and I wish to take this opportunity to welcome hon. Members to participate in this conference which will be attended by local and international participants. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: (viii) Engagement with potential investors/stakeholders in different forums to get their support for the project. (c)So far, more than 150 international and local companies/individuals have shown interest to invest in Konza City. This is overwhelming. Committed investors will be identified once Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KTDA) is established and the master delivery partner is on board. The master developer in collaboration with the KTDA will have structures build then sold to investors just like any other real estate project. This is to avoid speculative investors who will hold up the development of this new city. This model was used in ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is why the design has to be completed by the master planner in partnership with the Government. This can only be done once the land within the 5,000 acres has been demarcated by the Physical Planner, which he has not yet done. So once it has been identified; once we know where the sewers are going to be, where the roads are going to be and where other facilities are going to be, that is when we will start and I can assure you that it is going to be very soon. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would not be an authority to know what exactly the difference is but what I know that what we are doing is just a business city only; that it is a smart city, it is an ICT city, it is a green city and it is going to be purely commercial. It is a profit based business where investors expect to reap from their business. The other one was meant more like to develop imports in Kenya and create employment but here we are doing much more because we are creating employment. We are planning a ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: It is not the country which is going to make losses or the profits. This will be done, basically, through the investors themselves. view