Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join the distinguished Senator for Nakuru County on that Statement. I expected her to acknowledge that yours truly and you, Mr. Speaker, come from a county that has made major strides in women elections. In Bungoma County, out of 45 Wards, we have 13 elected women, which is just shy of the one-third constitutional rule. Out of those, the only woman Majority Leader in Kenya in the county assemblies is in Bungoma. The Chief Whip and the Chairperson of the Budget Committee are women, and they do a fantastic job. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: As we talk about women liberation, I expected also the distinguished Senator to acknowledge that the last frontier of women operation, Saudi Arabia, last year, opened a very small window by allowing women to drive and watch football, something that they were never allowed to do before. It is that crack in the window that will eventually open up the door. As I speak, I want to salute women like the distinguished Senator for Isiolo and the Senator for Uasin Gishu, who took the gauntlet, faced men, raced against them, defeated them and came to this House in their own ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. On behalf of the Chairperson who has rushed to another meeting, I want to thank this House for the continued unqualified support and confidence in the Committee. The Committee has done a good job, and I can see two of our Members here, Sen. Omanga and Sen. Wambua. The scandal that is MES is something startling. Seven-year leased equipment is still lying in cartons in hospitals out there, as counties are being crimped of Ksh200 million in every year’s budget. Things that look like products of fiction are what is coming out. So as not ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: services are procured on 13th April, 2014 and given 14 days to prepare a value for money assessment for this scheme and handover to guide and inform the process of procurement. Exactly three days later, he hands in a 100-page report already done, when the terms of reference required this fellow to go to all the 47 counties and assess the situation. He hands in a report in 3 days. Four days later, he hands in a second report that now gives a roadmap on the work that he is supposed to do; very strange indeed. This is what we ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to join the House in speaking to these very absurd incidences in the counties. Before we even talk about county offices burning, there was a wave of fires in schools. Every other school was going up in smoke and investigations showed that these were acts of arson. It is unbelievable that the fires that have erupted and consumed finance offices in the four counties that have been mentioned. It happened in such a way that no records were left. Why did the fire not erupt, for example, in the office of public works? Why not ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. Ndwiga for the comprehensive Statement. We did not expect anything less because he is one of the very thorough Chairmen. I have had an opportunity to attend his Committee and I was quite impressed in the manner he runs it. Like my colleagues have said, it is surprising that the Government has not declared this a national disaster. You may recall last year, when I asked for a Statement in this House on the security challenges in Turkana, the distinguished Hon. Senator for Turkana told the House that, in fact, part of ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: a situation like this, the President should actually deploy the military with equipment to go everywhere and spray these insects and kill them. The World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the United Nations (UN) have already issued an alert, yet we who are affected are having business as usual. Cabinet Secretaries making very bizarre statements that they will just age and die and so on. We need urgent solutions. I want to urge that you obligate the Chair of the Committee, as long as we have this menace, to give a fortnightly update to this House ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. I think this House must be proactive. The point Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has raised must elicit some response from the Chairperson of the Committee or the Speaker. We should not wait for the national Government to declare this a disaster. This House can pass a Motion and call upon the Government to move with speed and declare this a national disaster. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to suggest that since the Chair of the Committee on Agriculture is taking the lead, he should draft a Motion and bring it to the ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you and our brother, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri from Kisii County in welcoming the delegation of our colleagues from the County Assembly of Kisii. Kisii is very dear to me because I worked there in my early life as a magistrate. Secondly, the able deputy leader of my party, hon. Momoima Onyonka, is from Kisii. We have visited Kisii many times and we know the MCAs whose names you have read, as we have been in public meetings together. I welcome them to the Senate to learn what they can but to know that ... view
• 19 Feb 2020 in Senate: This is a grave matter. The two distinguished lady Senators have brought important Statements. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared this virus a global emergency. What any responsible country would do is to evacuate Kenyans from the area of danger back to our country. This is what other countries are doing; Australia and Malaysia have done that. The European countries are also doing that. It was disheartening to hear our distinguished Ambassador to China saying that we need prayers. Prayers are good, but this is not a matter that we should look for divine intervention; we need physical intervention. ... view