Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Jul 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Sen. Mwaura, I congratulate you for the very intelligent contribution you are making. I wish to inform you that with the absurdity of what you are saying about the Thika Superhighway, immediately after the former President, Mwai Kibaki, officially launched the road, in the next financial year, there was an item of Kshs1.2 billion on Thika Superhighway for maintenance - a brand new road being maintained. view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, for giving me an opportunity to join you and the House in welcoming the two delegations from Trans Nzoia and Busia counties. These are counties that are not only very close to my heart, but are also physically close to me. I welcome the visiting MCAs and the accompanying staff. I The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, yesterday the distinguished Senator for Turkana County made a statement on this Floor in relation to oil and insecurity in Turkana County. Today he has brought yet another statement with even greater detail about insecurity, cattle rustling and biased police behavior. We do not want to take sides. We know that there are Turkanas who live in Samburu County and even Isiolo County where the distinguished Sen. Dullo comes from. In fact, there has been a Turkana Member of Parliament (MP) in Isiolo in the last Parliament. Yesterday, I was visited by a former Member of the ... view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this matter being as serious as you know it is, and being a patriotic Kenyan that I know you are, I want to beg you that you allow us to ventilate a bit. The issues of the SGR are not limited to what the distinguished Senator for Nairobi has raised. In fact, as a great lawyer, you know that the Cabinet Secretaries he is summoning exclude the Attorney General who advises on contractual obligations of the Government. We will tell him as such. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I, therefore, encourage you to allow more of us ... view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The information in public now about the Chinese and the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a matter that would warrant a public inquiry. I want to salute the Senator for Nairobi City County for acting as Committees should; that they do not have to wait for this House or the Chair to motion the Committees to act. They must act when matters that affect Kenyans appear. Among the people that he should summon must include the Attorney General who sanctions and approves all contracts signed between the Government, foreign Governments and foreign entities. Second, ... view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: If you did, then that is excellent. We, as a country, cannot mortgage ourselves. Our public debt is now standing at Kshs5 trillion. That is unmanageable. The Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Mr. Njoroge, has already fired two warning shots that this country cannot borrow anymore because we have burst the ceiling yet we are told that even the little we have is in the hands of foreigners. The Chinese are doing jobs, like my colleagues have said, that Kenyans can do. I have seen on the highway--- view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, just one second. view
• 11 Jul 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have seen, on the highway, the Chinese driving graders and shovels and they wave for a vehicle to stop so that another one can pass from the other side on a construction site. Those are jobs that you do not even need anybody who has gone to school to do. Why are we reducing our country to this? This Committee must make far reaching recommendations on; first, whether the borrowing on SGR was viable. Secondly, whether it is a contract in the terms that I have said; BT, BOT, BOOT or Build Own ... view
• 10 Jul 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir I laud the Senator for Nairobi for bringing this petition on behalf of small traders. This is one country where the small trader is least valued. Yet if you go to places where there is no government and it is the Nongovernmental organisations that run the lives of people; you will find small traders toiling and moiling day and night to make sure people access goods. In my long career as a legal practitioner I have been very close to the Somali community. There is a point that he has raised that has made me come to ... view
• 10 Jul 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to join the distinguished Senator for Turkana County in the Statement he has made about insecurity in his county. I was in Turkana County last week. Everybody who stood up to speak was crying about security. In fact, at the time, two Members of Parliament (MPs) from Turkana had actually led the citizens into blocking the highway so that the oil from the fields of Lokichar could not leave the county. Their message was very clear: “We are looking for attention because of insecurity.” Mr. Speaker Sir, it is totally unjustifiable for parts ... view