Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Those that are devolved are not being budgeted for and resourced at county levels. Instead, the money is left at the national level. The Committee recommends that Senate must take and seriously deal with this issue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have been told of the debts that are bedeviling, first, the country. I will come to that. Let me deal with the issue of debts owed by Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and Kenya Power. Hon. Senators must be invited to ask themselves how a monopoly like Kenya Power or KenGen can be debt ridden. How can Kenya Power that ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker Sir. view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: generate revenue, has degenerated from the pride of Africa to the shame of Africa? Do we really need this airline if this is what it is doing to the country? I salute Parliament for the last two years that both Houses of Parliament resisted and rejected attempts to handover the Kenya Airports Authority to the airline that is bankrupt so that the airline can survive on a falsehood and quicksand of money that it does not generate. We need to keep asking these serious questions. For how long will the Treasury be giving money to an airline whose only benefit ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the distinguished Senator for Elgeyo- Marakwet in order to consistently and persistently refer to this as a Kibiru Report when in fact it is a report of the Committee on Finance and Budget to which even yours truly here is a Member and is a serious critic of the BPS? It is not a Kibiru report. view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: about consumption. The Chairman has read to the House that the Budget is focusing on consumption in agriculture, education, drought response, infrastructure, financial inclusion, energy consumption, and environmental conservation. Where is the growth? We must compete with other economies. The other day I was meeting the President of Korean community in Africa. He was telling me, “I am old enough to tell you that in the 1960’s, you guys were better than us.” This is a fact we know. How come today the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Korea is over USD45 million dollars yet we are still at less ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: revenue collected is going to debt service. The first charge on our public resources goes to debt service. We are left with only 30 per cent. We have a restless workforce that wants a salary increment every day. From that 30 per cent we have got to deal with health issues; we have a pandemic in our midst. We have to redirect some budget allocations to deal with COVID-19. With that 30 per cent, we have got heavy recurrent expenditure in wasteful national Government and county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Government must take the dragon of corruption and slay ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Five to 10 minutes. view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. If you look at this country, the most opulent persons are former or current civil servants. Are they hardworking than the ordinary Kenyans sitting in front of me here? Do people go to public offices to work for the people of Kenya or to work for themselves? These are big questions we have to ask. Until and unless we instill respect for public property and public resources in this country, we will continue having these problems. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you and I come from a county where we see this happening. A person who did ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, look at comparable jurisdictions. I like citing a country called Cuba. This country has done so much with so little. This is a country without resources. Cuba only produces sugar and they have some little oil wells that you cannot talk about or compare with Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia. However, if you go to Cuba, they have got the best health care system in the world. In Cuba, education is free and available to every Cuban child from pre unit to university including post-graduate degrees, which are available to them. Here we say ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: We have to change this. It is very sad that we are going the wrong way. I urge CS Prof. Magoha, a good friend of ours not to fall into this trap whereby everyone who becomes the CS of the Ministry of Education must appear to be reforming something. I asked them: You brought the 8-4-4 system, we accepted it, and it was working, why have we run away from it? Nobody is explaining to Kenyans. I thought when we wanted to move away from the 8-4-4 system, Kenya as the team leader in the East African Community was now ... view