Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am the Vice Chairperson of this Committee and we did a lot of good work. The country was happy and confident. The mood that this Committee has brought this House can be captured in the meeting with the farmers in Eldoret where they literally told the Committee, in the presence of our Speaker and other Members including the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader, that they saw hope in the resolution of maize issues through this Committee. The meeting may have been called but I was unable to attend but I want to agree ... view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: port without the Kenya Bureau of Standards report or anything and it is not held culpable in the Report. We can amend because they are part of the proceedings and bring them into the net. It is the same group that tells the Government to buy 1.5 million bags of maize from Kenyan farmers but imports 4 million bags from Mexico at harvest time and you will find that in the Report. It is the same committee. I want to agree with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and what Sen. Orengo has said. Procedurally, we need to bring a properly drafted ... view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I enjoin what the Senate Majority Leader said. In fact, when we were in Eldoret, farmers told him that he is a very good speaker and that he should speak about maize. I am happy that he has spoken about maize and farmers here today. Madam Temporary Speaker, for avoidance of doubt, this Committee sat and conducted its affairs with absolute integrity, and we laud Sen. (Prof.) Margaret Kamar for chairing the Committee. She never missed any meeting except once or twice, when she was out of the country; neither did I. Madam Temporary Speaker, I agree ... view
• 13 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I congratulate Sen. Khaniri for bringing this Statement. Probably, this should have been our first business yesterday. Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations must be condemned in the strongest terms possible. I laud the security agencies particularly the General Service Unit (GSU) arm of the police and the Recce Company for the exemplary job that they did in neutralising the terrorist, eliminating them completely and saving Kenyans in their hundreds. I send my condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives. In particular, I know one of my nominated Members ... view
• 13 Feb 2019 in Senate: terrorists confronting a military barrack or a heavily guarded police station. They will always look for soft targets like they did in 14 Riverside Drive. However, more importantly, as Kenyans, we can now see that the terror attacks in this country are changing by the day. If you look back, there was a terror attack during the World Cup in Kampala by Kenyan youth. Previously, any time there was a terror attack, everybody thought it was somebody of Somali origin. However, in the Kampala attack, it turned out that they were recently converted youth from the Luo, Kikuyu and, above ... view
• 13 Feb 2019 in Senate: And also out of compassion. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Happy new year to you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and all colleagues in the House and welcome back. view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support your statement in reflecting on what we have done previously, the challenges ahead of us and above all your robust defence on devolution and this House. I will just touch on one or two things. First, as we look to the new session, I encourage our colleagues who chair two critical committees of Health and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries... The country is facing very serious challenges in these sectors. Today as I speak, farmers in the western part of Kenya, the Rift Valley- both south and north - are getting ready to give the country ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, again, health is going through a very difficult and turbulent time yet we know that both agriculture and health are the most devolved functions in this country. Again, I encourage my young colleague from Trans-Nzoia, the Chairpersons of the Committee on Health, to also engage as quickly as is practically possible with the Ministry concerned and find a solution to the nurses’ crisis and lack of drugs in public health facilities in all the counties. It is a pity that people are dying from very preventable ailments. This is a terrible indictment to all of us. This ... view
• 12 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thirdly, as the Sen. Yusuf Haji and Sen. Amos Wako Committee continues gathering views from various sectors and sections of Kenyans, we encourage them to make sure, as colleagues before me have said, that this House is restored and given its rightful position in a devolved system. Equally important, the challenges of the counties today, apart from lack of accountability which we have already taken responsibility from what my colleagues have said, is also inadequacy of resources. I have argued many times, and I would want to convince this House, that as we move on to the future, sharable resources ... view