Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: We have the case of Narok and Migori where South African miners come and freight away containers of raw mineral in the guise that they are going to do research. At the end of the day, Kenyans are denied everything. We still treat minerals the same way they treat maize. You have to pay cess for a bag of maize, the same way we pay cess on coffee and sugarcane, yet the value of minerals is nothing comparable to maize or coffee. Something needs to be done. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Sen. Mwaruma has opened the box. The Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources should work hand in hand with him. There are enough professionals in the market who can assist this House in helping Kenyans to get value for money. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: I still remember the King of Belgium wrote that Kenya is a country that has mineral wealth equivalent to the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. Four years ago, the oil reserves of Saudi Arabia were valued at USD970 trillion. If that is what we have in this country, why are Kenyans still poor? view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: As a leadership, we need to style up and make sure that the mining that goes on in this country, whether in West Pokot, Macalder in Migori or Roasterman in Kakamega and everywhere benefit not just individuals, but the whole nation. County governments, as devolved units, should also get resources out of this to give services to wananchi. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this matter raised by my distinguished nephew, the Senator for Nairobi City County, is not coming on this Floor for the first time; we have raised it before. I believe that the level of thinking that Sen. Sakaja had in bringing this was to ask the Senate Majority Leader why he is hurrying up with so much gusto on a Bill from the National Assembly, when our Bills are not even being looked at in the other House. They are gathering dust in the office of the Majority Leader of the National Assembly or in some ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must make the National Assembly understand that in a bicameral system, Houses must work together. Houses must respect each other and decisions from one House moving to another is not a routine process. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: My proposal is that the Senate Majority Leader should step down this Bill and keep it in abeyance until we deal with processes of legislation, Bills and Motions emanating from this House. Let us have a standoff until everybody comes to their senses. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: As the Former Minister Edgar Tekere of Zimbabwe said, you cannot walk to a field – where a Whiteman is shooting black people – with your hands in the pockets. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must bring this to a close, but I want to urge the Majority Leader to take responsibility and lead from the front. Buck- passing and evading responsibility does not help this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a Bill in this House to gives effect to Article 110(3). I am told that this Bill is stuck at the BPO in the National Assembly. I said here that it appears that these days, Sen. Murkomen is in the outer layer of the onion ring of the happening of things. It is very important to impress ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: only way that the President will ask, “Did the Speaker of the Senate concur to this in accordance with the Constitution?” That way, it also activates a more positive thinking in the other House, that the President is unlikely to assent to the Bills that are passing, even if they come to our House, if they have got no Concurrence Certificate. This can be done administratively through the Office of the Majority Leader. I know that you are currently not enjoying the warmth of power, but I want to encourage--- view