Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have always known you to be a person of admirable patience. As I second this Motion, it is a terrible indictment to this Senate that this is a Motion that is the core of our being here. Therefore, every Senator should be concerned about looking at the budget to see what is going to their county and how it will impact on their people. Look at the House; we are indicting ourselves negatively. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Let me start by thanking the Chairperson of the Committee. I must confess that when we started with the distinguished Senator for Mandera County, I had some dim view of his ability to chair our Committee. However, he has risen to a very admirable level. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: He has done a fantastic job. We sat in Naivasha, listened to presentations and I could see he has really come of age in chairing this Committee and is doing a fantastic job. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Budget Policy Statement (BPS) is the foundation on which the budget will grow to be presented to the House. As a House that protects counties, we must start off by reminding ourselves of Article 6(2) of the Constitution that there are two levels of Government in Kenya, distinct but inter-dependent and must work on the basis of cooperation and consultation. That is key. It is a fundamental of devolution in Kenya, so that even when the national Government wants to do something that affects counties, they must always go back to that Article – distinct ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, interestingly, things are happening that are completely impervious to the idea of devolution. If you look at the Big Four Agenda; indeed, those items on the Big Four Agenda, well managed, can be very good for the country. However, we must respect the Constitution. The Council of Governors (CoG) appeared before us and told us that they have never sat down even once with the national Government to discuss the Big Four Agenda. When you look at the Big Four Agenda, whether you are talking about food security, that is completely devolved. Universal healthcare is also ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, equally important, when you go through the BPS, the Ministry of Health, which has been synonymous with scandals in this House for as long as you can remember, is loaded with an inordinate sum of money. It is only responsible for policy and for the referral hospitals which are only five as we know them. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) are parastatals and they each get direct budgeting. Port Reitz Hospital, a small thing in Mombasa County, is for communicable diseases. There is the Mathari Hospital which we do ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: annum. If you go to the Abuja Declaration that required that governments in Africa must spend a minimum of 15 per cent of their national budgets and the Maputo Declaration that requires 10 per cent on agriculture, even if you give the counties what we are giving them of the Kshs310 billion, if you take out 15 percent to put on health, there is no county that will put more than Kshs1 billion or Kshs2 billion on the average on health; and yet we are leaving Kshs93 billion in the Ministry of Health, which now is creating a new happy ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: If he does not know, then we are in a very sorry state, because everybody is crying. Every day you open a television, sugar farmers are looking hungry, maize farmers are even hungrier, rice farmers are shouting, tea farmers are complaining and everybody is hungry. As we do that; we are just busy borrowing. Only two weeks ago, the Government syndicated US$1 billion loan to pay debt. That is what you would call digging a hole to fill a hole. At the end of the day, you have a hole. How do you borrow from John to pay Tom and ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: The people who are still excited about lending money to Kenya are the Chinese. However, they are lending money to Kenya and causing us to mortgage our country. In all the stories about the corruption that we are seeing, if it is not a European involved, it is a Chinese. This is where our country is. As we look at this Budget Policy Statement (BPS), we must ask ourselves serious questions. Where are we headed to? The Council of Governors (CoG) appeared before us and we also put them through very hard questions. Why is there so much corruption in ... view