Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the second Statement coming on the Floor of this House in relation to the upcoming census next month. While I support the concerns of the distinguished nominated Member about pastoralist movements and the ability to enumerate them, the Chair ordered, after several interventions that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) responsible for the census be called to the Committee of the Whole to brief the Senate on the level of preparedness of carrying out a credible census. We say so because the number of people in each county is critical to every Senator here. It is the ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, from where I come from, we have a saying that when you raise a stick towards a thieving dog, even without aiming at it, it starts crying and wailing. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have no intention, whatsoever, of denigrating the standing of my Chairperson. He is my good friend and we work so closely. I quoted a saying from my language. Like Chinua Achebe said: “old, frail women feel very uncomfortable when dry bones are mentioned.” That does not mean he is degrading old women. It is a saying in a book by Chinua Achebe. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me finish by urging the Chairperson once again that we need the CS in this House so that every Senator is at the same level of confidence and comfort that we will have a credible census that will reflect the true number of residents and inhabitants in each and every county in this country. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I congratulate the distinguished Senator for Wajir for bringing a Bill that restates and reaffirms that a devolved function ought to be properly handled at the county level. Listening to all that is going on about cancer leaves one in a state of near confusion. When you listen to both local and international radio, there is so much that is being talked about. There is a clip from America that is going around and it appears to say that cancer is a creation and that leaves everybody wondering what we are talking about. Mr. ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will remember that in the olden days, cancer was largely associated with smoking. Cigarette packets were even labelled “smoking causes cancer,” “smoking kills,” and so on, and so forth. A serious campaign was mounted against smoking. However, I hardly hear anybody relate the new cancers that we are talking about to smoking now. We are now hearing of children, as young as one or two years old and middle-aged people dying of cancer. Likewise, teenagers and very old people are dying of cancer. When you look at what is causing it, you cannot quite get ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: beard anywhere. Consequently, the psychological trauma alone will kill you. We must, therefore, find better ways of handling these diseases. After the cigarette smoking fright that we used to give to people, then came the most common cancer, which was hitting women’s breasts. These were the most common cancers you would hear about, and we used to take them to hospital. If it was detected early, the breasts were cut off and some lived for a very long time. However, it is now very difficult to tell. When I saw our distinguished late colleague, hon. Ken Okoth, in Paris, he ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this country does not lack money; what we lack is good management. That is the problem. I have been asking myself a question that anyone of us can ask themselves; if it is true that eating junk food causes cancer, then America would be the most cancerous country. This is because they live on junk; they eat junk for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Every corner has junk food – from MacDonald’s, KFCs and whatever you call it. There is junk everywhere. How come they are not having this pandemic? It is the same thing when one ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: because of eating junk food. That is what they have been having. How come we are now being told in Africa that eating KFC and Macdonald’s is likely to a case cancer? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are also told that excessive consumption of alcohol causes cancer. Go to Russia, and they have Vodka in the morning, lunch and for dinner. How come they do not have a pandemic of cancer? Something is tragically wrong somewhere in our continent, and we need to confront it. I, therefore, request Sen. (Dr.) Ali to amend the Bill so as to lay strong ... view