Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will recall that in the run up to the last general elections, we found situations where some governors were not allowing their opponents to do outdoor advertising because they controlled the service providers. We, therefore, need to be very careful and make reference to the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Act, so that a CEC does not form a company and grants it a licence; nor does he revoke the licence of another company without following the due process. view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Secondly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 17 talks about vandalism and introduces penalties for it. It says- ―A person who willfully or recklessly destroys or damages any advertisement belonging to another person, commits the offence of vandalism and is liable, upon conviction — (a) in the case of a first offence, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding nine months, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings, or to both;‖ We are going to find ourselves in a tricky situation where our remands and cells will be full of people who maybe went and wrote something on ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of county legislation, I think it will be very useful for this Bill to allow counties to come up with their own legislation. My colleagues have talked about the issues of relevance of advertisements to the lives of the people; these are issues of content and context. In Kenya, one will find advertisements on alcohol, cigarettes or farm products that might not be acceptable to that particular persuasion, in the precincts or neighbourhoods of a Church or Mosque. Who is going to police issues of content and context? view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have taken a little bit of time to look at the relevant City County of Nairobi Act, which has already been signed into law. The CEC has been given some powers that are close to censorship. This is an area that we must tell the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), led by the indefatigable Ezekiel Mutua, that he also needs to decide where he wants to sit. This is because we have sometimes seen him taking a hardline position when it comes to advertisements. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: However, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for those of us who leave this Senate at 6.30 p.m. and by the time we get home, it is 9.00 p.m. We have little children with whom we would want to spend a little time with before they go to sleep. However, at 9.00 p.m., the televisions are flooded with advertisements of alcohol and one betting company after the other. We need to have a conversation, as a country, and decide what it is that we want to project to our people. In the past, it was insurance companies, banks, telecommunication and manufacturing companies ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Bill. I am not necessarily looking at your head, but I fully support this Bill. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I wish to appreciate the benevolence of Sen. Olekina who has sponsored this Motion, which is the kind of stuff that we should be discussing in this Senate. I support this Motion. I also take note that Kenya’s position in the world economic forum travel and tourism competitiveness index is 80 out of 136. That is not something we need to be proud of yet tourism contributes about 90 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That is even bigger than what the insurance industry contributes to the GDP because the insurance sector is just ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. The question I pose is: Should counties engage the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) when it comes to disaster management, provision of ambulances and related services? We have two examples. Mandera and Kisii counties signed up with the KRCS to provide disaster management, ambulances and related services. There are many counties in this Republic that go and buy contraptions and put a Red Cross sign on them and call them ambulances. The Governor for Mandera County was a bit jittery because the Auditor- General had indicated that it was ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support The Care and Protection of Older Members of Society, (Senate Bills No.17 of 2018) that has been sponsored by the Senator for Kericho, Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the last one week in my county, I have buried a renowned elder, Prof. Ouma Muga. This was a gentleman who served this country in various capacities. As a young man, he topped the national examinations countrywide and when he sat for his Cambridge examinations, he again topped the examinations nationally. He proceeded to Makerere University and later on went to ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. We never concluded the County Pension Scheme Bill in the last Parliament. It is before this House and we have a responsibility to make sure that we adopt it. We had a conversation with the Governor for Uasin Gishu last week when we were in Eldoret and when we told him that his wage bill was unsustainable, he told us that he cannot retrench and if he retrenches, he has to pay pensions yet he does not have money to pay the pensions because the Senate has failed to conclude the matter of the County ... view