Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Mine is just a clarification that I want to get from the Cabinet Secretary. He mentioned that one of the reasons for the delay in the completion of the project is the whole issue of low budgetary allocation for purposes of land compensation. I ask the Hon. Cabinet Secretary whether he is aware of the provisions of Article 40 of the Constitution on what the Government needs to do when it acquires land from individual persons for purposes of public utility. That the persons who have surrendered their land for purposes of public utility must ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: He is one of the budgets. He is the one who presents a budget. He is the one who gets allocation. At what point will we then make sure that the persons who have given out their land proposal for this project get their due compensation? It is a running issue in almost all Government projects, and we must begin to bring an end. view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Once more, as I indicated last time, Thwake Dame trundles across Makueni and Kitui counties. I would have expected the Cabinet Secretary to begin by apologising for attempting to mislead the House and the country on the status of this dam. However, be as it may, my question is on the initial cost of the dam. He says that the height was adjusted from 77.8 to 80.5 meters. Then, in the process of construction, they realised that there was a weak foundation on the dam, which needed deeper excavation. Has this resulted in variations in ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, arising from that response, then my concern, and I believe this will be the concern of the public, is on those two components: the issue of the height and the weak foundation. I am sure the Government must have paid for a feasibility study on this project. The issue of how deep to excavate must have been part of that cost. So, who is bearing the cost of that deeper excavation? Is it the Government component or are we now going to ask the African Development Bank for a bigger loan to do this project? In my ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you know Sen. Madzayo is my boss. When I walked in, I was hardly able to recognize him. I am just rising on a point of order for you to clarify whether Sen. Madzayo is properly dressed for the mission he wants to undertake in this House. view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to make a comment on the Statement brought to the House by Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda on the matter of the suitability and safety of Ombeyi dump site in Kisumu County. There is a reason the drafters of the Constitution, in the Fourth Schedule, Part II, assigned the responsibility of removal of dumps and solid waste to county governments. As I thank Sen. (Prof.) Ojienda for coming up with this Statement, it is my considered view that as the Committee retreats to look at this Statement, this matter is weightier than being ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a few minutes ago, I had the misfortune of getting a story from a parent of a child who went to a dumpsite in a county - I do not want to mention the county now - and came back home with pieces of what looked like rotten flesh, which actually could have been human flesh. The issue of waste management in counties, both solid and liquid, is a matter for which I would urge the Committee on Health - if that is where this Statement will end up - to consider developing a Motion that will ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr Speaker, Sir. You cannot fail to notice that today, Sen. Methu is very well-addressed and the hair looks good. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are a lot of things that I have not told you and this House. I have not told this House that at some point in my life, I lived in the barracks. My father is a former army officer, in the Kenya Army of that time. So, matters of security and matters of Defense are very close to my heart. The world over, armies are trained to do three things, whether it is explicit ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for indulging me. The purpose of asking any supplementary question is to get an answer. So, if you ask a supplementary question and you do not get an answer, then there is no point. I want to seek clarification. I do not want to push the Cabinet Secretary to do things that she is not allowed to do. On my own behalf and behalf of the people of Kenya, I want to understand what is so secretive about telling Kenyans what brigade or what battalion is engaged in whatever operation is taking place ... view