Zipporah Jepchirchir Kittony

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you for that clarification. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: I beg to respond. The total award for the compensation of the owners of the parcels of land acquired for construction of this particular road, St. Mary's, Kinoro/Kiyanjuku/Bogori Road was Kshs115,662,825. The KeRRA received Kshs28,999,599 from the National Treasury and disbursed the money to the National Land Commission (NLC) on 12th October, 2023. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Kshs28.9 million received for this specific road project was paid out on a priority basis, starting from kilometer zero where the road starts. This explains why some landowners have not been compensated while others have. However, the remaining balance of Kshs86.6 million will ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Like I have said, the Ministry will coordinate closely with the National Land Commission (NLC) to submit timely data of project-affected persons to the National Treasury to enable the planning of budgeted amounts for that compensation. Thank you. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you for the supplementary question. I take note of Sen. Mwenda's supplementary question and wish to confirm that we will pay attention and provide priority to the ongoing projects very importantly, when there is a budget ceiling and a budget that work together between the National Treasury, Parliament and the Ministry. Having given the background of the 2024/2025 Finance Bill, which provided for a lot of these budgetary requirements, I confirm that we will closely pay attention particularly to the compensation to the project-affected persons. I gave the background on the Kshs7 road maintenance levy additional funds. We are ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to go straight to the responses to those two questions. I wish to state that 326 landowners were listed for acquisition under the Gazette Notice I have listed in response. That was No.10918 of 22nd December, 2020, for the project of upgrading Sigalagala-Musoli-Sabatia-Butere Road to bitumen standard. The Notice detailed the individual identified or affected persons by the project and the indicative acreage size for acquisition. There is a copy of the Gazette Notice attached in the response. The National Land Commission (NLC), which is mandated to determine individual entitlements in respect of land acquisition ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: The Ministry facilitated these processes in full and was thus awaiting issuance of award letters to the project-affected persons. The award schedule to KeRRA detailing compensation amounts informed provision of funds for the same. The KeRRA sent reminders to the Commission via a letter dated 27th November, 2023, which I have made reference to. There was another letter dated 15th April, 2024, which I have also made reference to and it is annexed. The NLC wrote to the Ministry on the subject in its correspondence via a letter of 21st September referenced as Annex 3. Regrettably, the letter indicated a ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, upon issuance of the awards, the Ministry shall prioritise settlement of this compensation at the first available opportunity, subject to availability of funds. I wish to confirm that we have now received the award list from the NLC totaling Kshs50 million. We will work quickly and closely with the National Treasury on the budget line and start the compensation process in line with the due procedure of how to compensate. Due to that appeal, the NLC has now cleared Kshs50 million. I want to confirm that it is just a budgetary and payment process. We will work ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, after this session, I will identify a date for a cup of tea with the Senator. He has just asked for a date and I will do that sometime next week. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank Sen. (Dr.) Murango, the Senator for Kirinyaga County, for those questions. Let me go straight to the responses. The two projects are being implemented by the agency in the Ministry and are annexed in my response. The Ministry is aware of the economic significance of the two road projects. However, the delay in completion is due to the pending payments or to the respective contractors as stipulated in my response. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Let me deal with the first Muthiri-Kagio-Baricho, Geduya segments of that road, where we have a pending bill of Kshs107 million, almost Kshs108 million and where the status of the road is 64 per cent completed today. I did check and should have provided you with this response, that there is a budgetary allocation from the current printed estimates of Kshs67 million. That will help us to expedite and work this road towards completion if we can get the contractor back to site, on account of payment of that Kshs 67 billion. Since, it is 64 per cent, which is ... view