Soita Shitanda

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 61 to 70 of 148.

• 1 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have a slum master-plan that was developed after the Sessional Paper on Housing was passed in this House in 2004. Our projection, as a Ministry, is that we should have housed most of the people who live in informal settlement not just in Nairobi but in all our urban areas by 2020. We are doing this in collaboration with the UN Habitat in conformity with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of trying to house the 5.4 million Kenyans who live in informal settlements. view
• 1 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my Ministry is in the process of putting up an appropriate building technology centre in Mlolongo. Its construction commenced a few weeks ago. This is phase one of the centre that will cost about Kshs130 million. We intend to collaborate with research institutions to come up with different forms of building materials in the centre. At the same time, we have a draft Bill that will be brought before this House soon. We have proposed major changes to the existing building code which confines building technology to brick and mortar. We want to open up so that ... view
• 1 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will inform the Minister to come and issue a Statement maybe on Thursday afternoon. view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry of Housing and, indeed, the Government, is not aware of any sale of junior staff housing to any senior officer of the Government in any of the districts view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have not repossessed any house meant for senior civil servants or junior civil servants. What we did was to stop the sale of so-called non-strategic houses in the districts outside Nairobi. So, the houses have not been sold and they are still being occupied by civil servants. Government houses are categorised into three grades, namely; Middle Grade (MG), High Grade (HG) and Low Grade (LG). So, a junior civil servant is entitled to occupy a Low Grade house. However, where junior civil servants in some districts are occupying High Grade houses, we ask them to ... view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kisumu’s case is a sad one in that a total of 170 Government houses have been grabbed. My Ministry is in the process of finding out how the titles issued to those Government houses can be cancelled. As you know, that can only be done through a court process. We are still going through the process together view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we did not sell houses meant for junior civil servants in Nairobi. What happened was that the Government decided to offload what we considered to be non-strategic houses in all the urban areas. Phase I involved offloading the houses in Nairobi, where a total of 1,200 mainly middle level houses were sold in estates like Rubia, Kileleshwa, Upper Hill and Westlands. In fact, the houses for junior civil servants in Nairobi were not touched. These houses are mostly found along Jogoo Road in Eastlands. These houses are still being occupied by civil servants. My Ministry is ... view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ndung’u Report has not been implemented. If you go through the Report, you will find that the recommendations that are contained therein were to be implemented by another Ministry and not my Ministry. I am also eagerly waiting for the implementation of the Ndung’u Report so that we can have the Government houses which were grabbed revert back to the Ministry. view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have written to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance to avail some funds so that we can put up houses for civil servants in all the more than 250 districts that we have now. In fact, according to the initial estimates, we require about Kshs25 billion to put up adequate houses for departmental heads in all the new districts. view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, houses that belong to hospitals are categorised as strategic and, therefore, are not subject for sale. We have advised the civil servants who live in those houses in Kisumu to report any cases of harassment from the grabbers. In fact, the civil servants have been advised not to move out of the Government houses they occupy but have been grabbed. We are still going through the due process of the courts to have the titles issued against those houses cancelled. I advise my friend, the Member of Parliament for Kisumu Town West to advise those civil ... view