Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the distinguished Senator for Kiambu and the Petition he has brought. Under the Constitution, any public acquisition of property must be followed by prompt and adequate compensation. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: What is happening in this country today is the opposite. People’s property is taken and you can see that compensations are only prompt where there are kickbacks. We have seen screaming headlines today where people have been paid money and two years down the line, there is no construction. However, where they have constructed and evicted people, there is no payment. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: My colleague should borrow a leaf from us in Bungoma County. You remember when they wanted to construct what they described as a mega dam in Tongaren Constituency. We told them that if there was any compensation, it had to be upfront. Five years down the line, there has been no compensation or dam. It means that if we had accepted them to do that, by now, nobody would have been paid a cent. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we do this, the management of land is a devolved function. Surveyors, planners and valuers are in the counties. I think this House should start thinking along the lines of passing all these responsibilities to counties so that they do the valuations, tabulate everything and call for money from the national Government to pay their people in the counties. Otherwise, if you look at the last six years, my colleague Sen. Orengo and those of us who were involved in writing the Kenya Constitution 2010, will start wondering whether bringing on board the NLC was the ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: The Government should not be in the business of impoverishing people but must be in the business of making people live better. From now on, we as the custodians of the people in the counties must ensure that any public project that requires dispossession of people’s property must be compensated upfront before the projects start. If they can pay Kshs6.5 billion for a forest and wasteland, I am sure that they can pay the people of Kinoo for cutting through their homes so as to construct roads. We want development, but the rights of the people are sacrosanct. The electronic ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Sen. Kihika of Nakuru County is so right. Four years ago, the Governor of Uasin Gishu County rounded up children in Eldoret and dumped them at Alupe Leprosy Hospital in Busia County. On the eve of elections, the same governor rounded up children in Eldoret and dumped them in a forest in Kitale, Trans Nzoia County. Now, we have Nakuru County It must be told to anybody and everybody with ears to hear and understand that Kenyans have a right to live anywhere and everywhere in this country. Kenyans have a right to own ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, how I wish we finished this quickly and went to the report of the ad hoc Committee as real business. I urge the Chair that persons of Senators in this House who have been given the responsibility to chair Committees must be serious about this House. It is the duty of every chairman of a committee to sit here in anticipation of business touching on their committee until we go to other substantive business. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: My Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget is sitting here and following the debate. My good nephew- the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Welfare is studiously sitting here and following the debate. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are having a situation where chairpersons of Committees just pass through the Senate. They enter and disappear when in fact, they know that business touching on their Committees can come up anytime, including where the Chair has directed that they act in support or response to issues raised. I urge, especially in a matter where the ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: business and urge the leadership of the Majority Side that provides the bulk of the Chairpersons of Committees to take this House seriously. Otherwise, they should reconsider their positions. There is no shortage of other people who can become chairpersons on their side, whatever their quality. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: How? 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