Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for indulging me. Mine is just to provide some information to the Cabinet Secretary about this rampant logging that is taking place across the country. Last weekend, I was in Kitui, a ward called Tharaka. These are Kenya Power (KP) people restoring power lines. The level of tree felling was enormous. In fact, if proper investigation is carried out, it may as well produce the results. Kenya Power is doing very serious damage to our forests. They are cutting down trees that have been there for hundreds of years, simply just to provide ... view
• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you. Clearly, I do not belong to that league where we are discussing about international airports. My supplementary stems from Marsabit where we are discussing airstrips. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my question to the Cabinet Secretary is on three airstrips in Kitui. We once used to have Kitui and Mutomo airstrips and there has been a proposal for Tseikuru Airstrip. None of them are functional. view
• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: In fact, I will respond to Sen. Cheruiyot because he is asking me whether hon. Kalonzo did not build the airstrip. He did not, but he helped to build airstrips in other regions in this country. I hope that the people in office today then will help to build airstrips where--- view
• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for protecting me. view
• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: I will take exception to that, but I will comply because I have listened to other Senators giving a lot of stories. I have no stories to give. I would want to know the fate of those airstrips because Kitui Airstrip has now been degenerated to a level being a grazing field for neighbours. Nothing is working there. I thank God that at least as we speak today, the Principal Secretary in charge of airports and all airplanes in this country is one Terry Mbaika who is seated here and he comes from that region. So, that Sen. Cheruiyot does ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to also make comments on the Statement brought by the Senator for Taita-Taveta on the schemes of service for chiefs and assistant Chiefs. The service provided by these administrators at the local level is so crucial that an assistant chief plays the roles of a judge, family counsellors, administrators and arbitrators. So, the services that they offer are so critical that there is need for a proper scheme of service, complete with clarity on career progression path, such that, someone can begin as a village elder or assistant chief, and aspire to ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not agree with Sen. Cherarkey on a lot of things, but I agree with him on the issue that he has brought to the Floor about village elders. Let us not even make the service of village elders too academic or elitist. Why do you need a university degree to be able to resolve small village issues? The best qualification for a village elder is a person who is mature enough to understand the challenges of the village and who is known within the village, who knows the boundaries of the village, relationships within the ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the word go, I must go on record to state that the Senate Majority Leader must improve consultations with the other side of the House on cross- cutting matters. I would be keen to hear from Sen. Sifuna, should he have the opportunity to contribute to this Motion, whether our sister coalition partner, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with United Democratic Alliance (UDA), extended such an arrangement to include instances where the Senate Majority Leader can ambuish one side ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Actually, some of them are PhD holders. I thought that they are learned enough to understand that if you are given a piece of cloth to tailor a shirt or a suit, you do it according to the size of your cloth or fabric, which you have. You cannot shortlist 500 people then turn back and say that you have so many people to interview. Therefore, you need more time. That is not a reason enough for the extension of time. The Panel cannot wake up one day and tell us that they want to operate within the constitutional principles ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for your indulgence. view