Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, I would like to thank Sen. Ledama Olekina for bringing this Motion to the House. This is a matter that this House has been seized of ever since it was established. During the first years of devolution, we did not have a pending bills problem. However, five years after devolution, we started seeing debts owed by county governments to various service providers piling up. I wish that this Motion could be amended. Therefore, I would wish to move that the Motion by Sen. Ledama Olekina on the Status of Pending Bills in Counties be ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: county government to clear inherited pending bills when approving exchequer releases.” Furthermore, the Motion be amended in paragraphs 2(iii) by inserting a new sub-paragraph immediately after sub-paragraph four as follows- “county governments in consultation with the Controller of Budget to provide a budget for completion of all existing projects and that initiation of new projects to cease until completion of the existing projects.” The justification for this amendment: On the first amendment, counties are required to present their medium-term debt strategies to the county assemblies along with the county fiscal strategy plans, and this is provided for under Section 123 ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply and beg to invoke Standing Order No.66 (3) to defer putting of the question. view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to proudly support this Bill by Sen. Beatrice Ogola. For the record, this is a third Bill that has been sponsored by a Member of the Homa Bay delegation in this Thirteenth Parliament. view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Sen. Beatrice Ogola has brought the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Bill. I brought the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Bill as well as the County Boundaries Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you will realise that Bills sponsored by our female colleagues touch on core socio-economic issues in this Republic. That is why this House would be better off with more women and not necessarily more men. If you look at the Bills that I have highlighted - the ones I have sponsored - they are hardware or conflict kind of Bills. This Bill by Sen. Beatrice Ogola touches ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: next to a tarmac or an electricity pole. In the past, it used to be a telephone line. Away from the tarmac, many people are losing children under the age of five. We are talking of 41 out of 1,000 births, but you might find that the number is much higher in certain parts of Northern, Eastern and Southern Kenya. If this Bill is well implemented and has enforceable provisions, it should ensure that children do not die out of preventable reasons. Where I come from, we have the problem of malaria. Many of us suffered repeated bouts of malaria ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: I watched as my younger brother was born one Saturday morning. I was sleeping, but was woken up and told to leave for my mother to give birth on the same bed. The young boy born on that day is a doctor. He was delivered by a woman who did not even go to primary school. There is indigenous knowledge. They are called wakunga in Kiswahili and nyamrerwa in Luo. I am sure in every other culture there are those skilled persons not in the modern sense, but with indigenous knowledge. They know which plant to use when you have ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: gone to school for six years, become an intern, or specialized as a paediatrician, why should we begrudge those people their salary and pay? Advocates are charging Kshs10,000 for a letter because it is regulated by the Advocates Remuneration Order. We have seen Members of this House charging Kshs1 billion for legal services. It is justifiable as long as you are complying with the Act and gone through taxation. We have seen in pending bills of counties of Kshs1 billion owing to legal professionals. We are therefore saying we cannot begrudge advocates their fees. They are professionals and are regulated. ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Sen. Manzo is not a full-time elder. He does not wake up on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to do elder duties. He is a very reputed advocate. He is a businessman. Those are the things that keep him busy, that put money in his pocket, but he comes to the Senate for the love of the people of Makueni and the people of Kenya. However, we have turned it the other way around. We are first Senators and politicians. Then our any other business is being an advocate or a doctor. I think we need to change that. Doctors have ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: do it better because access to high-quality maternal, newborn, and child health services is a constitutional right for all Kenyans. Even in the United States of America (USA), the debate, besides immigration, economy, Israel and China, is now on Roe versus Wade, the decision by the Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. In the 11th Parliament, Sen. Sijeny brought a Bill to this House, which the House rejected. However, the Bill was important because it was talking about reproductive rights and reproductive health. Let us not be afraid to insist on high-quality reproductive health services for our children and ... view