Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the President‘s speech via the Motion moved by the Senate Majority Leader. If you sat in that Chamber on the afternoon of Thursday, last week, you could see that over the period, the President has gained on the Opposition side and lost on his side. You saw a lot of cheering on the opposition benches, and murmuring and grumbling from his own benches. This tells a story that the unfolding scenario of politics in this country is indeed, very interesting. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the President spoke ... view
• 10 Apr 2019 in Senate: My apologies, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir; I thought it was the distinguished Senator for Uasin Gishu County in the Chair. I have no intention of changing your gender. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, 75 per cent of the Kenyan workforce is in the agriculture sector. However, if you look at this sector, sugarcane farming and sugar production is dead; maize farming is dead; tea farming is in problems; coffee farming is dead and rice farming is in trouble. If you go to Naivasha, flower firms are closing down; so, where is this growth? Where are the jobs coming from? We are ... view
• 10 Apr 2019 in Senate: through elections. However, we all know that the situation of bringing tranquility to this country cannot be resolved by a friendship between individuals; it must be resolved by strong institutions. I and anyone else can be friends. However, that friendship can be skin-deep and tomorrow we may part ways. We want a situation where, like my distinguished professor, Aaron Ringera, used to tell us at the university, that if you want to know the taste of a good law, imagine that law in the hands of your worst enemy. If you feel safe with it, then it is a good ... view
• 10 Apr 2019 in Senate: the Kenya Power (KP) scandal and the Anglo leasing scandals. Can you imagine that Anglo leasing cases are still going on, 13 years down the line? For example, my brother David Mwiraria went to his maker with a charge hanging over his head. Perhaps he would have been acquitted and gone a free man. Therefore, our courts must style up. Courts do not act in vain. The prosecutors must bring cases to court with proper evidence; in time and ensure that justice is dispensed quickly, fairly and justly to all that are brought before the courts. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, ... view
• 10 Apr 2019 in Senate: Lastly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, so that I leave others time to speak, I want to encourage President Uhuru. Let nobody advise or cheat him that the Big Four Agenda is achievable in his remaining term in office. These are very good ideas and dreams, and indeed all dreams are legitimate and valid. Let the Big Four Agenda be work in progress, just like we have Vision 2030, which was a dream to build houses, improve manufacturing, value addition and so on, and so forth. Nevertheless, the President should focus on two things for his legacy. On the war against ... view
• 10 Apr 2019 in Senate: their house, shot or killed. Those two things will be the greatest legacy of President Uhuru. He should focus on electoral justice, reform of the Constitution and, above all, the war against corruption. The President himself said that whether it is his brother, cousin, political ally or friend, nobody will be spared in the fight against corruption. We want to see to it that he lives to that billing, and cleans up the mess in this country. As the good old saying goes, ―Problems can never be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.‖ Let us see ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order No.47(1), I rise to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries concerning the imminent ban, by the Government, on the use of animal manure in crop farming. In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) Explain why the Government, through the proposed Food Crops Regulations made pursuant to Crops Act, 2013, intents to ban farmers from using animal manure in the production of food crops and state the rationale behind the move. (2) Explain what scientific study informs this decision. (3) State what measures have been deployed by ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Point of order! view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. While you are right that you do not have to direct the Committee but the tradition and practice is that the intervention of the Speaker at that level gives the timeline within which the response to the Statement has to be brought to the House. I believe that is what necessitated the distinguished Senator raising this matter. It is important that while Committee Chairpersons would ordinarily, without prompting, take up the issue, the Chair has a duty in addition to that, to give them direction on timing. view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join the distinguished Senator for Lamu County, whom I always call my son and, yourself in welcoming the students from Lamu County. Lamu County represents the inequality that is so glaring in this country. Lamu is a county that is supposed to be rich, tranquil and a holiday centre for every Kenyan. However, because of the inadequacies of the Jubilee Government, they have left Lamu County to operations of criminals, thugs, bandits and all manner of negative elements that have made the people of Lamu live very uncomfortable lives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we remember the incidents ... view