Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: assemblies. It is not right, in my view, for a Committee of this House, or a Member of this House, or anybody associated with this House, to attempt to micro-manage the management of county assemblies. The on-goings in the assemblies between the assemblers and their speakers is not the business of this House or its Committees. I want a direction from the Chair. The Speaker of the National Assembly of Kenya is not protected by any law. The Speaker of the Senate of Kenya is also not protected by any law. Further, the speakers of the assemblies of the 47 ... view
• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my understanding of the distinguished Sen. Seneta is that she is indirectly challenging what I said. For avoidance of doubt, I want to read to the House Standing Order No.96(5) which is so succinctly clear that we do not need to look at anything else. It says- “It shall be out of order for a Senator to criticize or call to question, the proceedings in the National Assembly, a County Assembly or the Speaker‟s ruling in the National Assembly but any debate may be allowed on structures and roles of County Assemblies or the National Assembly.” Therefore, ... view
• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, listening to my distinguished tycoon friend from Nyeri, one would have thought that he was addressing a chief‟s baraza. view
• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, English is a very difficult language. However, I have always prided in Sen. Murkomen as being reasonably schooled to understand a few things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not prosecuting an argument on any specific assembly. As the Speaker of this House, you have a cardinal constitutional duty to deliver rulings for posterity. Article 96 that Sen. Murkomen has quoted is right in the context he quoted. However, it is given meaning through Article 124. The Constitution goes on to say that Houses of Parliament shall operate under Standing Orders. Therefore, Standing Orders are creatures of the ... view
• 22 Nov 2018 in Senate: creature of the Constitution and its constitutionality is guaranteed to the extent that it is what guides us to act constitutionally. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, I have not said that we cannot oversight county governments. In fact, we engage them in terms of financial probity, in situations where the national Government is oppressing them and in terms of passing their allocations. In fact, it is this House that gave county assemblies independence from the county executive. At the beginning, county assemblies were an appendage of the county executive. County governors determined the budgets of the assembly. We fought ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the opportunity. Sen. Dullo is absolutely right. We would want to see the Committee on Health get to the depth of this monstrous fraud that has been committed on counties through the Ministry of Health. In the last Session of the last Senate, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Sen. Orengo, other Senators and I were at pains to ask the Government to show us a fixed term contract for a fixed period of seven years. How did the figure start changing in the leasing of this The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in Senate: equipment, first from Kshs4.6 billion, then to Kshs6.5 billion and now to Kshs9.5 billion. We have consistently asked; if it was a fixed term contract, where is the addendum to this country that varied these figures? Nobody has brought that contract here. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what we have been consistently asking is that if it was a fixed term contract, where is the addendum to this contract that varied these figures? Nobody has brought that contract here. During the previous Parliament, some documents relating to this contract were brought to this House. It was scandalous to note that the ... view
• 21 Nov 2018 in Senate: Senior Deputy Clerk, Mr. Mohammed, I want the Deputy Speaker to hear me. In fact, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the kind of matter that you should direct that the Cabinet Secretary for Health appears before a Committee of the Whole so that this House can interrogate this mater thoroughly and properly. If you go to the counties, people are dying daily. In a radius of four or five kilometres in our counties, you can have six or seven funerals in one weekend. People are dying of preventable diseases. People are dying because medicare is not available yet somebody ... view