Moses Masika Wetangula

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• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: tea is rated on the world market is when it is blended with Kenyan tea to give it quality. So for Mr. Lerionka Tiampati to tell Kenyans that our tea is so good, it is rating number two to Sri Lanka is an affront to the dignity of the Kenyan tea farmer. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Sen. Cheruiyot since you have been championing this, you can take it up to dismantle the Agriculture and Food Authority Act. We from the predominantly sugar areas are already drafting a new sugar Act to disaggregate ourselves from AFA and the confusion that portents in that organization. We asked them to account for the billions of money that was in Sugar Development Levy that cannot be found. I also want to advise my friend Sen. Cheruiyot, and those of you who come from tea plantation areas, you and your county governments are also playing reckless politics with plantations. For you ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: The same situation is in Bungoma for the cane farmer. The cane farmer is the most ill-treated farmer in this country. For breweries to make alcohol, they buy sugar, hops and all the input in cash. They then produce alcohol and sell. Every factory must buy its raw materials on cash basis and make their produce and sell. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the sugar sector, the farmer will plant cane which will mature in 24 months. He will then deliver to the factory. At the end of the day, the factory will first pay the contractor who ploughed, the contractor ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the State has a duty to protect everybody, including the small scale farmer. There is no reason whatsoever for this country to pride itself as an agricultural country, yet agriculture is plummeting day and night. You have heard the story of Botswana that in the 1960s came to Kenya to learn about the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC); how to set-up a commission like that and how to deal with beef exports. Today, the KMC is only known for the amount of land that has been looted by individuals and the equipment that is rotting away. Even when ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, I am sure you join me in seeing the irony of clapping for a Senator who has come to the Senate when he has a duty to be in the Senate, anyway. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is our duty to be in this House. Therefore, when Senators enter this House, they are not making history. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, our level of appreciating things is upside down. 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: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have the greatest respect for the Deputy Speaker, my distinguished learned junior, who in part of his life has worked with me in the same law firm. I was not talking about Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. If any insinuation in the fertile mind of the Senate Majority Leader indicates that it is about him, it is mistaken. I simply said that we should not cheer Senators who come to this House to do their duty because the Senate Majority Leader said that the Deputy Speaker had come to increase the numbers. I do not look at Sen. ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: I thank you. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion by Sen. Kasanga. When we debated the Forest Act in the Ninth Parliament, I said then that we cannot, as a country, make forests a no-go zone. We should allow people to live with forests and benefit from them. There are communities, including mine, where certain sections and families do not believe in modern medicine, and have lived up to a hundred years. They go to the forest and harvest plants that they use as medicine. Families go to forests to collect dead wood to ... view