Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Dec 2017 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join the distinguished Senator for Narok County in urging those responsible for bringing answers- -- There are certain issues where we can use the lack of committees as an excuse but where the loss of human life is involved, it is not a question of a committee. Human lives have been lost in very callous circumstances. In this particular case, people were butchered. This is a situation where issues of committee or no committee do not matter. In fact, the majority leadership should have taken not more than a week to bring an answer to this ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The distinguished Senator for Makueni County, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., is not here. He is away in court and it is only fair that the Statement is issued in his presence so that he can interrogate the contents thereof. I request that it be put aside for another date when he will be available. I can see Statements (a) and (c) are in relation to his request. view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senate Majority Leader should not treat the House in such a casual manner. The issue of bipartisanism is very important in any House, especially on matters that have nothing to do with any side of the House. It is not rocket science to second a simple Motion like this. The Senate Deputy Majority Leader does not have to prepare herself and research in the library just to extend the sittings of the House for a few days. This trend should stop. It is the practice of this House. Yesterday, a Motion was moved here to adopt ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We cannot sit here and listen to Sen. Murkomen pontificating on irrelevant polemics that do not help this House. Practice, precedence, tenets, courtesy and good behavior are grounded in Standing Order No.1. I expect him, being a lawyer, to know. When we stand here to raise issues, it is not a test of wills. If we want to test wills, we can test each other until the chickens come home to roost. We are simply saying that you are presiding over a House with two sides. More often than not, we will ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will not engage in any infantile arguments on this Floor. All I want to say is that we, on this side, cannot and will not solicit to second any motion. Indeed, that is not why we are here. However, we are saying that on matters that are bipartisan in nature, and we will probably need a pronouncement from the Chair--- Extending the Calendar of the Senate is not a Jubilee or NASA matter; it is for all of us. It matters not who moves it, but it matters that both sides be involved. I would like ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we had already - in one of the committees- agreed that you will call a Special Sitting on 13th December, 2017 and so this Motion forestalls that. It is important that we hang on and finish the process of electing Members to EALA. I hope that the two Houses of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to join you, the House and the country in eulogizing the passing on of Hon. Francis Nyenze, the MP for Kitui West; the constituency that he has served with distinction for four terms. The late Hon. Francis Nyenze was a distinguished and valued member of our Coalition, NASA. In the last Parliament, he was the Leader of Minority in the National Assembly; a job he discharged with absolute distinction and success for the full term. No single occasion did I, as his leader in Parliament, get any complain of any ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for an opportunity to make a few remarks about this Policy. The National Urban Development Policy that has been brought here is a conversation that has been going on for a long time. In sub-Saharan Africa today, the most urbanised country is Zambia with about 87 per cent of its population living in urban centres. However, they live in squalor. It is the most urbanised because people have moved from rural areas into towns but they live rural lives. The world over, most urban centres evolve and grow with relevant human intervention in terms of ... view
• 6 Dec 2017 in Senate: These are cities where their government consciously set aside an area – of course there is Abuja in Nigeria. This is where the governments said: “We are moving the seat of our government in this area with serious restrictions on development, proper planning, zoning and so on.” However, even where the cities grew through historical process the evolution of planning required that you have to keep residential suburbs away from industrial areas which have hazardous waste and material from amenities such as hospitals. That is why the original Nairobi had an industrial area, which was not a residential suburb of ... view