Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, like many other agricultural enterprises that have been successful, the tea sector employs millions of Kenyans. Small scale holders directly and indirectly employ close to five million people who live on tea earnings. It is sad that we have a strange way of running things in this country. It is like the more successful an enterprise looks, the more neglected it becomes and the greater the appetite for looters to get in and hook in their siphons and run it down. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Kenya is officially referred to as an agricultural country because 75 per cent of our public workforce is in the agriculture related sector doing indirect agricultural activities, food processing and agricultural-based industries and so forth. However, over the period, through neglect and deliberate misguided policy, the tea sector has been rundown to a level where it is on its knees. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: After the promulgation of the Kenya Constitution, 2010, we had the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) Bill now the AFA Act. The subsequent Act dealt a deadly blow to sugarcane, tea and coffee farming, among many other sectors. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: He is mobilising Members, but he must do so with--- His continuous movements are like a gadfly flying in your face all the time if you have ever experienced that. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: The AFA Act purported to amalgamate all agricultural existing laws into one creating a monopoly of sorts and a superstructure that has not worked. They brought in tea, sugarcane, coffee, maize, rice, fisheries and everything. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you and I come from a major sugarcane growing area. The managers of the Sugar Development Fund (SDF) that had over Kshs30 billion at that time The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: disappeared. To date, the sugarcane industry has no cent as a fallback position when the factories are under threat. The huge reserves of money they had for management and development of the tea sector also disappeared through the AFA Act. Since agriculture is a hundred per cent devolved, we should not under any circumstances leave the national Government in the guise of the AFA Act to micromanage and control the agricultural sector in whatever form. Secondly, we are talking about the plight of tea farmers and Sen. Cheruiyot has amplified it very well. If tea is the second largest foreign ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, every day you will see the Cabinet Secretary for Tourism and Wildlife holding a glass of champagne and curvier in the name of promoting tourism. However, we should compare what tourism and tea bring. I am not saying that tourism is any less important, but I have a feeling that the reason everybody cascades towards tourism is because it has a foreign component. Since tea is grown by a person in Bomet County who--- view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I never said that. I said in relative terms what each sector contributes to the economy and what we require the Government to pay focus on. Kenya is known to have huge mineral deposits, but because over the period inadequate attention has been paid to it, it is not a major a factor in our GDP. Now that we have mining of base titanium in Kwale County, the hon. Senator should just pick up the budget document, look through and see whether the income from it is factored in our budget. It is not, and yet that ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: If we can create a Ministry of Tourism and give it a budget of billions, institutions of training of hospitality and the Cabinet Secretary is busy roaming all over the world promoting tourism, but at the end of the year, we are told that the tourism earnings are not doing better than the previous year. We must then pay attention to tea. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Yesterday, I read in the newspapers that the Managing Director (MD) of KTDA saying that Kenyan tea fetches the best quality rating next to Sri Lanka. In fact, he should be embarrassed comparing Kenya with Sri Lanka. The tea plantations in Sri Lanka are 200 years old and tired, producing inadequate quality of tea. The only time Sri Lankan The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view