Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1971 to 1980 of 6535.

• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: automatically become mental. It is not necessarily true. I have some good friends who enjoy a puff of cannibas sativa. However, for purposes of confidentiality, I cannot mention their names. They are brilliant and speak very intelligently and you never notice any depression in them. Mental problems are sometimes caused by people who engage in excessive consumption of alcohol. However, others who consume a lot of alcohol remain normal. 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
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill now brings us to the real issues. That mental health must be addressed in the context of the new Constitution and the devolved functions under the Constitution. When we look at the structure of Schedule Four, the only known mental health facility in the country, Mathari Mental Hospital is classified as a national referral hospital. So, it is in the ambit of the national Government. I hope that by the passage of this Bill, counties will then be empowered with sufficient resources to have facilities alongside the existing normal hospitals that take care of ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want us, as a House, to carefully go through this Bill because it gives effect to constitutional effects. Sen. Kasanga and the Senate Majority Leader should look at this. When she says that mental patients can exercise full rights, particularly in politics. For example, stand for positions of representations, how do you reconcile that with Articles 99 and 137 of the Constitution that says clearly that for a person to qualify to run for Parliament, he or she must be of sound mind? A person of sound mind is not a mental patient. It ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: , who sang a song asking why you go to the market and find a person with serious mental difficulties, for example, mwanamke mwenye kichaa unapata ana mimba . Who has done this? Chances are that the people who do these bizarre things are not mental patients. They are just weird characters in society that take advantage of people in difficulties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Shakespeare said that the sophistication and civilization of a society is charged in a manner it handle and treat people with disabilities, mental The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: difficulties, children and women. In those days, the equality between men and women was not as vibrant as it is. The way you treat those cadre of people will explain how your society looks like. When you disregard and treat them badly, it shows the level of the absence of civilization your society has. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we yearn to get to a situation where, in this Bill, Sen. Kasanga, must obligate the county governments to also roll out budgets that deal with cases of counseling and depression. In extreme cases, we must have an obligation in each county ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we must appreciate that there are mental patients who suffer from mild depression that can walk into hospitals, sit with other patients, be treated and go away. However, there are those who will go to hospital and assault the doctor attending them. Therefore, we need to have a situation where all those particular extremes are dealt with. If we do not do so, we will not be doing the right thing has intended by this Bill. I encourage Sen. Sylvia Kasanga that when it comes to reconstituting the board, the theatre of health care in this country ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: For people who live around Nairobi, if they feel depressed, they can walk into Nairobi Hospital and they could be referred to a professional psychiatrist. If you go to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Karen Hospital or Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital, it is the same thing. However, if you live in Londiani, which is my good friend Sen. Cheruiyot’s constituency, and you suffer from a mental problem, when you walk into a dispensary, you are given a clinical officers who knows very little, or nothing at all about mental illness to attend to you. What they do is to strike you ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: I do not think it is true – then the more reason we need a lot of psychiatrists and psychological counselors to advise people. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: This Bill also speaks to ownership of property and disposal of property by mental patients, but we have to be careful. I agree that mental patients are human beings like all of us and they must be allowed to enjoy all the freedoms and rights within the Constitution. view
• 4 Jun 2019 in Senate: There is a lawyer called Ms. Jane Njagi who was ahead of me by one year at the University of Nairobi. She is a distinguished lawyer and she became a bishop. We saw stories in the newspapers that because she was undergoing severe depression, she signed away her entire family property to a ‘prophet.’ How can somebody do such things notwithstanding their mental status? I believe that lady has a son, a mother and sisters. However, due to depression, she signed away her entire possession of prestigious properties in Lavington and other places to a ‘prophet’ who does not care ... view