Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Mar 2014 in Senate: Is it in order for the distinguished Senator for Kirinyaga to falsify facts of history and geography that Kilindini is the only natural deep water harbour along the entire East African coast when we know we have the natural deep water harbour of Daaban, Peira, Maputo, Nakala, Nambula, Dar-es Salaam, Tanga, Takaungu, Malindi, Lamu, Kismayu, Mogadishu and Djibouti. Is he in order? view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a procedural Motion, but a very important one. We have been waiting for Bill No.3. We had tasked the committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Busia County to bring a comprehensive raft of amendments to various statutes that touch on devolution, to bring them to speed with the current dispensation. I hope the Bill contains all this. It is time that we moved away from engaging in debating Motions full time and address matters of legislation that will help not only enhance and strengthen devolution, but which will change the lives of Kenyans. ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, one can be very well dressed in strange things. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to begin from where the good old professor left; the standard gauge railway. I have said this in many fora and I want to say it on the Floor of this House that nobody in his right frame of mind in this country can oppose the construction of a standard gauge railway. We needed it 30 years ago and we need it even more today. I want to advise President Uhuru for free that when a project of this magnitude is mired in such ugly controversy, Kenyans have waited for 30 years for a ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: That makes sense, although the port already has authority under the law to open and maintain dry ports like the ICD at Embakasi. They have acquired 100 acres of land in Malaba and they are supposed to put up another dry port and so on. The Port of Mombasa alone, if efficiently run, and if you flushed out the corruption cartels there, can generate our current GDP in one year. It can turn around the economy of this country. We once visited a port in Belgium called Antwerp which has an annual turnover of twice our GDP. Mombasa is in ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I believe that the distinguished Nominated Senator has landed from outerspace, because I have never been in the Jubilee system and wish not to be at anytime. The Nominated Senator must please her nominators that she is here to do something. view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the pipeline, again, is a very important asset. I honestly would want to encourage the Committee – because they said that the purpose of their visit is to inform policy and legislation – to bring legislation here to get rid of tankers from the roads. We have a pipeline and can put in more money to have return cargo for the oil fields of Uganda, for example. The pipeline can be extended up to Kampala, Rwanda, Burundi and Eastern Congo, and get these monsters off our roads. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, again, I feel sometimes constrained ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to invite the distinguished Nominated Senator to read a small book by Chinua Achebe called “The Trouble with Nigeria.” Chinua Achebe says that President Shehu Shagari had pronounced himself that corruption in Nigeria has not yet reached dangerous proportions. Chinua Achebe says that anybody who makes a statement like that is either a crook, a fool or does not live in Nigeria. Then he says: “I know that President Shagari is not a crook or fool. I can only conclude that he does not live in Nigeria.” I know that the distinguished Senator is ... view
• 18 Mar 2014 in Senate: I do not want information. I need no information, I know what I am saying. view