Moses Masika Wetangula

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• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: The country has been treated to very horrid pictures, statements, statistics and facts about the state of food insecurity in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) in the country. The most dire has been singled out to be Turkana, Baringo, Samburu, Marsabit, Isiolo and others. Pictures of children, women, elderly men either dying or dead or drinking water that is not even fit for animal consumption have been shown that do not portray a very good image of our country. This is a terrible indictment on all of us. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I have evidence that as early as November, 2018, the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) warned that Turkana County faced an imminent danger of a serious shortage of food and water and human and animal lives were going to be in danger. In February this year, that is early last month, again, the NDMA had issued an order and warning, similar to the one issued in October last year, that Baringo County was going to suffer serious food and water shortage and both human and animal lives were going to be in danger. The electronic version of ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Today, as we speak here, we have been told that close to 1.2 million Kenyans in the ASALs are staring at starvation. As this is happening, farmers in the breadbasket of the country in the north rift, western parts of Kenya and south rift are angry with everybody because they are not able to sell their produce. Farmers in Eldoret have told this House and repeated last week that they are holding cereals that they produced the other year, last year and part of this year. They cannot sell to the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), they have no ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: If you go to parts of western Kenya such as Kisii in the former Nyanza Province, Bungoma and Karatina in the former Central Province, women sit by the roadsides with very healthy produce of maize, beans, bananas, name it, the whole day without the ability to sell yet Kenyans are dying due to lack of food. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Yesterday but one, I said that the President should declare the current famine situation in the country a national disaster and an emergency and deploy the military doctors to the affected counties to help save lives. This is an indictment because the failure of a rainy season should not be a reason for Kenyans to die. There are countries of the world that do not receive rain for even 10 years. The Sahel Region, parts of Australia, Namibia and many countries go for some times up to 10 years without a drop of rain. So, the lack of rain or ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: without water? It tells us that our planning and our execution of development programs is flawed and that our governors are not rising to the occasion to save people even with the little money that they have. I would want to urge the Governor of Turkana and the governors of the affected areas to freeze and suspend their development programs so as to save human lives. I want to urge the National Assembly, that deals with allocation of resources, to allocate enough resources to send food to these counties. Maize is rotting in the silos of the National Cereals and ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, give me two minutes to finish because I know that the interest is high. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: I want him to order the military, their facilities and doctors to go and save Kenyans wherever they are. Part of the problems of Turkana is borne out of insecurity. The tiff between the Pokots and the Turkanas, the Turkanas and the people in Baringo, the Pokots and the people in Baringo and Samburu is also destabilising the issue of food security. We want to urge the Government to deploy sufficient security. You can imagine people who are running away from marauding bandits without food and water for a week. They will be left with no option other than to ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: should tell the Government of the day that it is a shame, an embarrassment, an indictment on it for people to die. It should be told that the pictures that we are seeing in the print media, electronic media and social media are a shame. I beg to move and thank the House for according me the opportunity to lead the debate on a matter that is shaming all of us. view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I invite the Senate Majority Leader to second this important Motion. view