David Gikaria

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes, Hon. Speaker. I have the response.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes, Hon. Speaker. I have the response.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, the Senate amendments to the National Construction Authority (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 59 of 2022) be now considered. I had brought this to effectively operationalise the 30 per cent under...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, the Senate amendments to the National Construction Authority (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 59 of 2022) be now considered. I had brought this to effectively operationalise the 30 per cent under...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Asante, Mhe. Spika wa Muda. Ninamshukuru Mhe. Ruweida Mohamed kwa kuwasilisha Mswada huu Bungeni, ambao unalenga kuwajali watu wa maeneo ya Pwani, ambako kuna bahari, na ambapo watu hupoteza maisha au hujeruhiwa kutokana na wanyama walioko baharini. Hili ni jambo muhimu sana kuliangazia....

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Committee received a request for Statement and asked the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum for a response. The first question was on a report on the current status of funding, planning and implementation of the extension of...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes, I do, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) I am just about to conclude. Under the Kenya Off-Grid Solar Access Project (KOSAP) mini-grid and stand-alone solar facilities, Mandera has been allocated US$15.1 million. That is approximately Ksh2 billion. Wajir has an allocation of US$20 million, approximately Ksh2.5 billion. Lastly, Garissa has...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes, Hon. Speaker. This was a request that was sought by Hon. Tom Mboya, Member of Parliament for Nyatike Constituency. The first question, was on the status of replacement and maintenance of dilapidated power transmission and distribution infrastructure including collapsed power poles and...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I do not want to answer about 13 years ago. I want to agree with him that it is true, this is not a proper concrete answer. As the Report indicates, this country cannot operate unilaterally on its own. We have...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. For example, there was a planned project in Lamu where we were to use an underground cable through the sea to take the off-grid power to Lamu. Because of lack of funding, this has not been done. The current...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. I also rise to support this amendment. The aspect of rivers and water catchment areas is very key. To be honest, if you go around the country and see where the eucalyptus trees have been planted along rivers they...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, my apologies. I think my Committee needs to act against the Principal Secretary who was supposed to have given us this response. For the second time, I do not have it but I plead with the Member of Parliament to...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) The commitment by this government to put North Eastern Kenya on the national grid would be done.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes. That is where I was headed.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Yes, I give an undertaking that by next week, I will have that.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I, totally, agree with Hon. Keynan.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) I also do not have it.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) I am here, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I have not yet received a response from the Ministry. Again, you had directed that we should sit with the Member of Parliament of that area. Now that we are back, we can agree on the date so that we can...

Hon. David Gikaria (Nakuru Town East, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I have not yet received a response from the Ministry. Again, you had directed that we should sit with the Member of Parliament of that area. Now that we are back, we can agree on the date so that we can...