- I sit in the Budget Committee and from what I see, we are increasing the number of stalled projects.
- The current regime has commissioned so many projects, which are still not moving.
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Nothing much has been done by the Kenya Kwanza administration to tackle the challenge of stalled projects.
I sit in the Budget Committee and, from what I see, we are increasing the number of stalled projects.
The current regime has commissioned so many projects, which are still not moving.
It is public knowledge that a number of new projects have been launched but nothing has been done two years later. The current government must avoid that approach.
Stalled projects in Kenya are worth over Sh1 trillion, if they are all valued.
The problem with stalled projects is that the government has invested a lot of resources in them.
They are at different levels of completion, some at 10 per cent, others at 50 per cent, and some at 90 per cent.
At the design stage, you realise the government was expecting serious outcomes from those projects.
As Parliament, what we should be doing before starting new projects is to relook at the existing ones.
This is with the view of appraising them and seeing which ones still make sense.
The ones we realise can add value to the national interest, it calls on all of us as Kenyans to prioritise and fund them because they would require minimal resources to complete.
As a leader with a background in financial management, we would rather complete those which would add value, just by isolating the best and ring-fencing resources to complete those that will add value.
For projects that cannot add value, we need to get them out of our books – while giving reasons - so that, within three or four years, we start new projects.
If you look at our books, some are as old as 10 years, others 15 years yet a number of things have changed.
We need to do an evaluation of the stalled projects, isolate those that cannot add value to the national interest and finish those that can add value.
We can find resources to complete those that will add value, which can be a better approach, in the face of the limited resources.
Kitui Central MP and Debt Committee vice chair spoke to Star