Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we know that it is very difficult to eliminate corruption completely. We know that there is corruption even in the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK). However, they are intolerant to corruption such that when anybody is found transgressing the law and the moral fibre, you suffer for it. In Wall Street in the USA, there is a man called Mr. Murdoch, who manipulated trade and stole people‟s money. When they caught up with him at 60 years old, he was jailed for 150 years; and he is in jail today. Those kind ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I listened to the Debate in the National Assembly – and it is not normally our habit to debate what goes on there – but if you listened, every Member who stood up to speak, when it was a Woman Representative, they were only talking about National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF). They were saying that if that fund was not touched, then it is okay. Members of constituencies were saying that if the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) was not touched, then it is okay. How then are we representing people if we are only ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: through taxation. In fact, when you suppress taxation, you increase production; and that is how economies grow. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, these issues are serious and weighty. I expected that the austerity measures that the Jubilee Government would want to bring in place is a matter that the President should call the leadership of this country, regardless of where we stand. We are patrioticKenyans like everybody else. We want to see this country growingin future, and if we take leadership, we want to lead a country that is growing, that is orderly and moving forward. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, just the other day, we said here that because of these constraints in the economy, that is seriously devolved is the paymaster general, because the salaries that used to be paid from Nairobi can now be paid at the counties. We have devolved corruption; the corruption that is eating the country at the centre is eating the country at the counties. That is about all! Today, counties have not received any development fund for the last couple of months. They are only getting enough money to pay salaries and stop people from rioting and making uncomfortable noises. ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the President and his Government should carry out a critical evaluation of how public funds are spent. What is more worrying is that I saw, yesterday but one, a letter written by the American Senate to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the letter, they were saying – and they are right – that the USA is the largest contributor to the IMF, which is true. They are also saying:- “We are allowing African countries to get into a debt trap or a debt snare from China and when they collapse, they will run to the IMF ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, can I have two minutes just to wind up? view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. You have seen even the altercation between the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the lender of the last resort, and our Cabinet Secretary for Finance. The IMF has now said that we are not eligible to borrow from them. If we do not do that, then the inevitable may happen. If we cannot pay to our largest creditor, China, which does not give us concessional, but commercial loans, then we run the risk of our country foreclosed. We have heard of Sri Lanka being foreclosed and there is a threat to foreclose Zambia. In Argentina, the ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: We are staring at a serious danger and a stitch in time saves nine. If we speak now, we may arrest the situation. If the President and his Government are listening, you may get the 8 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) today, but that is not the end of the problem. Any government that is spending 70 per cent of its revenue on debt service is on a very dangerous part. Any government that is paying Kshs400 billion in an economy like Kenya, on interest only on debt, is on a very dangerous highway. We are continuing to borrow. ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: President Uhuru and your Government, talk to everybody. V. I. Lenin said that even when a mad man talks, listen; it maybe his lucid moment and you may pick something from him. Listen to everybody and we can make this country better and greater. We will not be better or greater, in the short term, by borrowing. We look like somebody who goes to borrow money to open a shop and run a business and he comes back home carrying a mattress, radio, bicycle and other non-productive things for a commercial loan. That is the highway to bankruptcy and we ... view