Soita Shitanda

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 81 to 90 of 148.

• 2 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I undertake to inform the Minister for Finance about the Statement. view
• 2 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, maybe, next week on Tuesday. view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: THAT, The Speaker do now leave the Chair. view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: I would like to thank the House most sincerely for according me this opportunity to move the Vote of my Ministry, Vote 44 – Ministry of Housing. view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I move debate on my Ministry, allow me to outline the mandate of the Ministry of Housing as derived from the Presidential Circular No.1 of 2008 on Organisation of Government. This mandate includes: 1. Formulation, implementation and monitoring of the Housing Policy. 2. Improving the living conditions and housing for the poor and low income through shelter and slum upgrading. view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. May I take this opportunity to thank the hon. Members who have supported my Ministry’s Vote. I assure them that most of the concerns that they have raised about the Ministry’s operations will be taken up to make sure that the operations of the Ministry are done in such as way that Kenyans derive maximum benefit. view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, slums have been upgraded before. I share hon. Members’ concerns that previous slum upgrading programmes have ended up benefiting the people who live in other areas. But I want to assure them that the strategy that we have devised as a Ministry on the slum upgrading project in Kibera where we have 600 housing units will ensure that those houses are distributed fairly. These houses were meant for slum dwellers. The Ministry has worked out a programme to ensure that these houses go to slum dwellers. My Ministry has not quite taken into consideration issues ... view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Speaker, hon. Members also raised concern about the Rent Tribunal Bill which we intend to table before this House. I want to assure hon. Members that the Bill does not seek to protect rogue tenants. It seeks to streamline the operations of the tenants/landlord relationship. It also seeks to take into consideration the rights of each party. The Bill is intended to bring some form of sanity in the sector. We have heard cases where landlords have thrown out tenants. We have also cases where tenants have refused to pay rent. I think the Bill is structured in ... view
• 11 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy, the Civil Servants Housing Scheme is about four years old. We intend, if funding was available, to make it possible for every civil servant to own a house. But, even then with the little funding that we have, we are trying our best. I want to assure hon. Members that we will do our best to see to it that civil servant both in low and upper cadres have access to housing. view