Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the onset, I must thank the promoter of the Bill for the good job and thought that he has brought this Bill before us for debate. Most importantly, I thank him for the consultations that he has had with the different stakeholders, especially in the county assemblies across the country. Devolution is perhaps one of the best things that has happened in our country within the context of the 2010 Constitution. The most unfortunate thing is that devolution seems to have somehow gotten stuck at ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Perhaps that conversation needs to be revived, so that we have a County Integrated Finance Management System to ensure that counties are accountable for the expenditure of their finances. I like the provisions of Clause 109(b) on the utilisation of the fund. It says in black and white that- “The fund shall be used to defray administrative expenses of the county assemblies, acquisition and proper maintenance of buildings, grounds, and other assets of the county assembly, and administrative expenses as may be incurred by the fund under this Act.” This is explicitly provided for in the Bill. The clerk of ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. My question is about the hardship allowances for teachers. However, this is more like a comment. There seems to be a serious disparity across Government departments. One department of Government would appreciate a region as a hardship area and staff working there are considered for support as working in hardship areas. Other departments of Government do not consider the same area to be a hardship area. It is complicated by the support provided by the Equalisation Fund, from which we have identified 33 counties to benefit. You realise that some teachers in some of ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This area of bursaries is a very grey area and I am happy that we will be discussing this later in the afternoon. However, the Cabinet Secretary is here; I want to know from him whether the Presidential Bursary Scheme for orphans and vulnerable students is still operational and who benefits from it. I ask that question because we read some of these things on newspapers. I would wish after this because he may not have that data, if he could give us a list of students per county who have benefited from that Presidential ... view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Did I hear the Cabinet Secretary say that the Presidential Bursary Scheme is domiciled in the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection? view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Oh, my goodness. Can there be an explanation for that? What does the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection have to do with a bursary scheme for students in high schools? Please, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know we are listening to the Cabinet Secretary. It is very clear to us and this country, that this Ministry is basically just groping in the dark. They are hoping for a conversation to resolve these issues. To hear that a bursary fund is being treated as a cash transfer to wazees, is really amazing. My question to the Cabinet Secretary and the Ministry of Education would be, before we have that conversation, what is the solution to the problems that you are facing? What solutions are you proposing to get yourselves out of the ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On the matter of social media clips, and as a media practitioner, I just want to let us know that in this day and age, any institution that does not embrace social media as part of their day-to-day transactions, then may not be doing very, very well. I believe then that Parliament must have an alternative media policy that will guide how to interact with social media platforms. On the more substantive issue of your communication, I want to thank you for it. I will say two things: First, remember we sat and made those ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Lastly, we woke up this morning to a very scary media report on how police officers are accessing private communication through mobile phones and using that communication to track down people for abduction. That is a very serious matter and it informs the basis of one of the resolutions that we made at that time. We must remind the IG of Police that the right to privacy is a Chapter 4 right under the Constitution. Article 31 of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 requires that the privacy of communication for every member of society must never be infringed. If that ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you should not allow Sen. Cherarkey to take that direction. Did you hear Sen. Cherarkey alluding--- view