Enoch Kiio Wambua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. As I do that, I join you and the Leadership of the Senate to welcome back our colleagues from recess and I hope that this Session shall be fruitful for the benefit of the people we represent in this House. I also take this opportunity to thank and congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Kamar and Sen. Crystal Asige for coming up with such a wonderful Bill - the Kenyan Sign Language Bill (Senate Bills No. 9 of 2023). I will go straight to the provisions of the Bill ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Assembly becomes an Act of Parliament or law. That way, the public can have a say on how they are being governed and how the laws that govern them are being made. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the most part, in a lot of instances when we are making laws, public participation has more or less become Public Relations (PR) and an act of ticking the boxes and ensuring that we have lived to the expectations of the Constitution and the law. In this Bill, the promoters are pushing for targeted public participation by the users and consumers of the Kenyan ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: must also find a way of making it an obligation on the Minister for Education when they are doing capitation for schools, to ensure they factor the need to purchase special instructional materials to cater for the needs of our children with difficulties in hearing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fully support this Bill. As I conclude, the provisions of Clause 18 which I had made reference to--- In fact, what the promoters of this Bill are saying is that as much as is practically possible, everybody who goes to school needs to be trained in the Kenyan sign language. That ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I would like to thank Sen. Faki and Sen. (Prof.) Kamar for putting the interest of their people and their property ahead of any other consideration. Nonetheless, with your permission, I will correct the Senator for Lamu. He has done well in defending the interests of the people of Lamu County. He has no business alluding to a government that is doing a great job. You have a duty to hold the feet of the people who have the responsibility of securing your people on the fire until normalcy ... view
• 31 Aug 2023 in Senate: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker, Sir. What is your point of order, Sen. Wambua. view
• 31 Aug 2023 in Senate: I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand on Standing Order No.111 to seek leave of the House to limit debate on this Motion. Seeing as this is a Procedural Motion, we do not need to spend a lot of time debating extension of time for the calendar. Under Standing Order No.111, I seek to limit debate to three minutes per Senator. I ask Sen. Methu to second. view
• 31 Aug 2023 in Senate: I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the onset, I support the Bill. view
• 31 Aug 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must put our House in order. This is a very important Bill; its accord us an opportunity to show true bi-partisanship in this House. I would have expected that the Senate Majority Leader would have asked the Senate Minority Leader to second the Bill. In which case, we would have carried the House together. Then after him, the able Senator, the Chairperson of the Land, Environment and Natural Resources Committee would have come to contribute to the Bill. Next time, the Majority Leader calls for a special sitting, then consideration must be given to the Minority ... view
• 31 Aug 2023 in Senate: trees. It is achievable. However, out of those, how many will grow to maturity? That is a conversation that we must have as leaders. The beauty of climate is that it knows no side. It does not know the leadership in the Minority or the Majority. It affects all of us equally. So, we need to come up with initiatives to grow trees. I heard yesterday and I have been hearing this story that El Nino is on the way. We must find a silver lining even in extreme weather conditions. This is the opportunity now for regions of this ... view
• 31 Aug 2023 in Senate: beyond the definitions that are given in this Bill, it is important, especially for the county governments to be taken through a capacity building initiative to understand how to deal with carbon credits, carbon markets and all those jargons along the carbon trading. It is important that county Governments will understand how they can establish county forests and how those county forests could begin to become a major source of own-source revenue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, devolution as we know it is supposed to be progressive in a way that at some point county governments should be generating a lot more ... view