Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5771 to 5780 of 6535.

• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question of coalitions should also be looked at very carefully. Coalitions in politics are necessary evils at the end of a race where things are not quite clear. It may not be too good, if you want to strengthen our democracy, to institutionalize coalitions. This is because when my party goes to elections our intention is to win outright. The issue of coalitions comes as an exigency at the end of elections where there is no sure winner. But to define and institutionalize coalitions and make it look like it is the order of ... view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when it comes to mergers, the provision given in the Bill is weak. It is giving mandarins of parties leeway to sit at the top and merge parties without necessarily going back to the members who own the party. We have said in the new Constitution that certain fundamental decisions in this country cannot be made without going to a referendum. Now, I would want these mergers to be tested a little deeper, by the parties going to their larger membership, so that the members can decide whether or not they should be a merger ... view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on Article 12 of the Bill, I think the Minister has been unnecessarily wordy and is departing from the language that is in the Constitution. This is because he says: “A public officer shall not be eligible to be founding member of a party” and so on. I would urge the Minister to pick the language from Article 77 of the Constitution, which simply says: “An appointed State officer shall not be eligible to hold office in a political party.” He should not say, “they should not be” and then say “this does not apply ... view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Article 14 – resignation from a political party – alludes to what I have already said. I think the Minister should look at that very closely. In Clause 14(6) there is this convoluted phrase “in relation to the common objective of a coalition” that my able Secretary General pointed out to hon. Githae. Coalitions are between parties and not individuals. If your primary party has sponsored you to go to a coalition and you become a renegade to your primary party, you cannot seek solace in the coalition. Your defence lies in your primary party. ... view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to point out to the Minister that once funds are allocated to a party, I think the State should be interested in whether these funds are put into good use or not. If a party is raising enough funds from its membership it should be at liberty, based on its strength and support in the populace, to buy a property for the party. In the following year, they might do something else. But to limit it to 10 per cent or 25 per cent in the Act we are repealing, it is ... view
• 2 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one can go to the Court of Appeal, but the final court in the land is the Supreme Court. Nobody should be prevented, especially when fundamental rights are injured, from going up to the Supreme Court to agitate and argue their case. The penalty under Article 43, given the magnitude of some of the transgressions we get from political bigwigs, a fine of Kshs500,000 is too paltry, in my view. I urge the Minister to relook at the offences he is creating, redefine them and give them differential penalties so that the greater the gravity ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for an opportunity to contribute to this amendment Bill. I support the views aired by the Mover and Seconder. In our Vision 2030, and our desire for industrialization, skills development is key and critical. We know that countries that have made major strides in industrial development like Singapore, Malaysia, India and the so-called Asian Tigers have deliberately invested heavily in skills development, training, mechanics, fitters, welders and those that make the wheel of the economic innovations turn. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this country, very little attention is often given to this sector. I am happy that an Authority is being created that will pay attention to this sector. If you look at Kenya ten years back, you will see the hunger, desire and, sometimes, even the recklessness that we have exhibited in converting our middle level and tertiary colleges into fully-fledged universities without caring about how those colleges can be replaced or replicated elsewhere, to the extent that we now possibly have more universities in Kenya than technical training institutes, yet we know that the ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently, I was talking to a friend from South Africa, and he was lamenting that South Africa was importing skilled technicians from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia and Asia generally. Kenya has done reasonably well in the human resource development but not good enough. We need to pay attention to this. You know that for every engineer, if you have to run efficiently, you need up to 200 technicians, just as for every doctor, you need so many nurses and so on and so forth. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what this Bill is lacking, and I want to urge the Minister to look at it before it comes to the Committee Stage, is that in setting out the powers of the Board, the designers have completely omitted to give the Board the authority to design, continuously improve and manage the curriculum for skills development in the country. If the Authority is going to make any sense and be meaningful to the economy, it must be vested with the authority to develop the curriculum, co-ordinate the teaching of technical skills in our polytechnics, technical training ... view