Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: There can never be a light touch in a speech as important as the one that he is making. He is alluding that since the Cabinet Secretary for Education is a Kisii, he must be speaking to Kisii’s first before the Kisii’s can bring matters to this House. What about those of us who have no Cabinet Secretaries that we can speak to? Who will address those national issues? CBC is not a Kisii issue; it is a national issue. I am very sure Sen. Onyonka is not raising the matter on behalf of the people of Kisii. He is ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also add my voice to the report of the Mediation Committee. I have followed very keenly the contributions that have been made by my colleagues who have taken time to peruse the report. It is true that we are living in difficult times economically and all of us must acknowledge that. It is also true that our counties are seriously suffering. There are services that have been rendered in counties and for which there is no money to pay. Business people in the counties are counting their losses. Employees and ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: The decision of Parliament on how that money is shared must never be influenced by the plans or aspirations of the national Government. It must be a very objective decision made by Parliament because both governments belong to this country. I want to say two things about the utilization of this money that we want to devolve to our counties, especially in the health sector. We all agree that health is a devolved function. However, I do not know of any county - I stand to be corrected - that can stand here and say that their health sector is ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: they did not prepare those reports. Somebody else prepared and they were asked to sign because the person who prepared was not authorized to sign. There is a casualness in the handling of county resources. That must be stopped. Our governors must know if they do not know, that they do not own the counties in which they serve. They are just stewards of public resources. It is expected of them to be vigilant and act responsibly in the management of those resources. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I say this, knowing pretty well that the framers of our Constitution in ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: the exchequer to counties. The other truth of the matter is that eventually, this money is disbursed to counties and this money is disbursed into commercial banks. When these commercial banks receive money for counties, they use the money to for some lending. Governors must also be more innovative and ensure that they get into agreements with commercial banks operating within their counties, so that they have standing orders that, on 26th or 27th of every month, every member of staff in the counties are paid their dues, whether the money has been credited to their account or not, because ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the trail of thought was also doing other things in me, so let me just conclude by saying that, yes, we would have wanted to see Kshs400 billion going to counties. However, I see the Committee has agreed on Kshs387 billion, as equitable share, and an additional Kshs8 billion going into counties. So, because this is a mediated version of the Bill, and the report requests us to support that money to go to counties, with those remarks, I support. view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would rather you just allow the professor and her students to engage on this matter and leave alone other people who are pretenders to the throne. Nonetheless, I respect Sen. Mandago. Only that he is also trying to misinform my teacher. I want to inform my teacher, Prof. Kamar, that she should go back in memory lane and remember where we left Moi University being called the fountain of knowledge. When we went to Moi University and when she was my teacher at the Moi University, it was never an issue who the vice-chancellor of ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I take this opportunity to second the Bill and the Cotton Industry Development Bill report. I must begin by thanking the promoter of the Bill, Sen. Beth Syengo, and the Committee of the Senate on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries for making bold steps to process the Bill to this point. I also want to thank our partner Committee in the National Assembly for proposing certain amendments that, as you have heard our Chair say, I sit in the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Senate. The Committee has gone through the provisions ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Not very long ago, we committed the outgoing ambassador of the United States of America in Kenya, Meg Whitman, that the United States Government would continue to promote the revival of cotton farming in this country, so that this nation and farmers from Kenya and business people from Kenya can also continue to benefit from the provisions of the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA). The sorry state of affairs, as we stand today, is that we have cotton or garment companies in this country that are forced to import cotton and cotton products from as far as China and other ... view