Moses Masika Wetangula

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• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, when we were small children going to school, every single day was a news item that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Kenyans had contributed money to Gatundu Self-help Hospital. If you go to Kiambu after Windsor, you will see how tarmarcked roads are criss-crossing each other entering people’s homes and so on. If that is not a privilege, I do not know what you will call it. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We know that this stage is not for debate, but to make a few comments. First of all, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senate for passing this Bill up to where we are. Secondly, looking at these figures, they obviously are a trap for the county governments to enter the highway towards failure. This is because, apart from a few county governments, like Nairobi, Mombasa, probably, Machakos, Nakuru and Kiambu that have the capacity to raise some extra revenue, many of the counties we represent The electronic version of the Senate Hansard ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: here are simply getting a budget line for recurrent budget, period. Yet under the Fourth Schedule, we have devolved enormous responsibilities to the counties. It means that, at the end of the financial year, what all the governors will do is to pay salaries and call themselves governments. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am very happy that Sen. G.G. Kariuki is here, listening to this treatise, because he was a full commander, as it were, of the dark forces in the olden days. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to second. I will not cite the provisions of the Constitution or the statutes because Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o has very ably cited them, compared them, contrasted them and shown the way. When we were at Bomas of Kenya and in many other fora, everybody including those who were beneficiaries of the old command regime resonated with one ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: they can be deployed in the manner that Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o, the Mover of the Motion, has suggested. All these people are still on the payroll of the Government and yet we are here crying that there is no enough money going to devolution. In fact, the Constitution, and I think you have cited it here before, provides for the national Government and the county government to sit and sign agreements on how to pool their synergies together in the process of strengthening devolution. view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: One would expect that the county governments and the national Government can, in fact, sign agreements and deploy these Provincial Administration personnel to help establish county governments for the next couple of years while they are being paid from the wage bill of the national Government to relief the county governments of the burden as we move on. Sometimes you wonder whether the left hand knows what the right hand is doing because President Uhuru Kenyatta stood in public and we lauded him. He said, “I am from today ordering that Provincial Commissioners (PCs) and persons holding those levels of ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: Last week, I was shocked to see that PCs and policemen called PPOs who had been removed had been deployed in provinces now being falsely described as “regions”. In the new Constitution, we do not have a province or a region. We only have two levels of government. We have the county and the national government. Then we have administrative structures of the constituency which is now equal to the district and other smaller structures below them. Now, it defeats logic to ask county governments to recruit what they call a sub-county administrator who is going to earn a salary ... view
• 31 Jul 2013 in Senate: When you go further down, most of the wards are equal to divisions. Now they are recruiting ward administrators who are going to be paid from the national coffers and the national government still has a district officer (DO) in the ward as an administrator. When you go further down, there is a chief and an assistant chief. If we are talking about a massive wage bill that is frightening the Government with everybody asking for money, why are we piling personnel, upon personnel, upon personnel? It does not make a lot of sense. view