Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee visited Turkey which is a country that is very close to Kenya but where we have no mission. The Committee visited England and Ireland. If you have the report before you, the Committee made three recommendations on page 5. From the meetings and observations during the visit, the Committee recommends that:- view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: “(i) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reviews its policy of establishing missions. The Ministry should focus on the economic viability of the missions in line with Kenya’s policy shift to trade and economic diplomacy”. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: So you can see that the Committee is already acknowledging that we have a foreign policy that has shifted to economic diplomacy. So, it is not right to say that we have no policy. The Committee recommends that the Ministry undertakes a review of the performance of all missions and that those that are economically not viable be closed down. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: ”(ii) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should strengthen the division of international jobs and the Diaspora at the headquarters and open diaspora desks in each mission so as to effectively engage the diaspora in national development. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: (iii) The Ministry of State for Defence should explore areas of military collaboration with Turkey which has a strong and productive defence industry that has contributed to the economic development of the country”. Those are the three recommendations. The first recommendation is totally at variance with the sentiments expressed by the Mover of the Motion and his Seconder who said that we have no policy but yet they acknowledged that we have a policy that is oriented to economy and trade activities. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Secondly, on the international jobs office and the diaspora, in fact, the Committee that does oversight to my Ministry should commend me because I brief them regularly on the ongoing in my Ministry and they know that under my watch, I have opened an international jobs office and a diaspora office that is well staffed at directorate level. An office that has done so much for this country within so little a time. I can give you an example: Under my watch and through that office we campaigned at the most difficult moment in January 2008 and got Mr. Erastus ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Through the international jobs office and the diaspora office, we campaigned single handedly, as a Ministry, without any support of any other arm of Government and got Justice Joyce Aluoch elected the first Kenyan judge to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague and she is now serving. Under the international jobs office and the diaspora office, single handedly, I have put Kenya sitting on the AU Commission on Corruption; elective and not appointive. In that same office, I have had a Kenyan called Githu Muigai elected the first Kenyan to sit in the African Court of Justice and ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: I do not want to blow my trumpet but I want to humbly submit to this House that the Committee that does oversight to my Ministry has been a little harsh and unfair to me, as a Minister because I have done the best I can and that best I can is not the best within mediocrity view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: but the best within the best. I can assure you and I have colleagues here like my able Assistant Minister, Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry and you can ask any other Minister, go to the AU Council of Ministers, Kenya has the most respected voice. We are listened to and our opinions are taken into account on everything. We give this country very adequate representation. It is simply not possible for my oversight Committee to sit and advise me to rationalize the posting of officers in my Ministry and at the same time, urge me to open a diaspora office in every mission. ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Namibia remains a critical ally and supporter of Kenya when it comes to issues like whether UNEP should be here or not or whether we should be voted to some international committee or not. So, we cannot just wake up and go and close a mission in Namibia. What have I done? I have rationalized by cutting down to the bare minimum the number of officers that serve in these missions, to the extent that under the Geneva Convention, a diplomatic mission is recognized as such as long as it has an ambassador, a consular and one officer. That is ... view