Soita Shitanda

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• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we forwarded to Parliament eight copies of this answer way back in May. I do not understand how the hon. Member has not gotten a copy but I have an answer here. If he is okay with it, I can read it. view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) There are 51 Government residential houses in Nyakach District which are located in about 13 different sites. Twelve of them are actually health facilities and one side is the district headquarters. (b) The Ministry is satisfied that those units are in habitable conditions, except for one lograte house situated in Sondu Dispensary, which we are going to rehabilitate during this financial year. view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to inform the hon. Member that in cases where the public comes together and puts up a residential or office for use by Government officers, my Ministry normally takes over those buildings and they become part and parcel of the pool housing for Government. So, the buildings which were put up on Harambee basis to house the district headquarters are actually Government buildings as of now. Regarding Pap Onditi Hospital, during the year 2006/2007, my Ministry spent Kshs600,000 trying to rehabilitate those buildings. It is true that they are very old and some of ... view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said that we have allocated Kshs1.9 million in this financial year to Nyakach District for the rehabilitation of Government houses in that district. As I said earlier, there is one particular unit which had not been renovated at all, which is in Sondu Dispensary. It is being used as a store at the moment. We are also going to renovate it alongside the other houses at Pap Onditi Hospital. view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the figure of Kshs1.9 million was provided to us by the Works Officer in Nyakach District. This money is going to be released in the next two weeks. We have just commenced the financial year and we are in the process of preparing the Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) to be released to the districts. They should get the money before September this year. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) There are three judges and magistrates newly posted to Machakos Law Courts who are commuting from Nairobi to Machakos on a daily basis. On the request by the District Security Committee, my Ministry was asked to identify houses to accommodate the three officers taking into account the following factors namely common security arrangement and accessibility. The Ministry explored the estates within Machakos Town where the judges and magistrates could be accommodated and several pool houses were considered. A zone comprising six housing units occupied by various public servants, among them ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, on the contrary, all the six officers who were living in this area have been asked to vacate. We had one nurse. There were two doctors, two prison officers and one officer from the Ministry of Finance. They have all been asked to leave. In addition, the houses that have been allocated to these doctors are in the High Grade (HG) category. They are similar to the houses where we are asking them to occupy. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not a question of the priority for the people of Machakos, but rather the priority of Government in providing accommodation and security to its civil servants. So, what we had been asked by the District Security Committee (DSC) was to identify an area that could be convenient in terms of providing security--- view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, all this was being done at the request of the DSC. So, if there are any security issues, hon. Mbadi knows whom to ask. But as for the Ministry, we were asked by the DSC to find a zone where we could place these judicial officers that would be convenient in terms of the pooled security which they were provided with. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I said, the DSC requested for a zone for the judicial officers where they would be provided with pooled security. In my answer, I said that one of the houses that have been identified for allocation to one of the doctors is actually within the hospital. We do not expect a judge to go and stay in a hospital! It was easier for a doctor to relocate to the hospital which is his work station and the magistrate or the judge goes to the other pool house. view