Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5971 to 5980 of 6535.

• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: We have cut down some of our missions to that level. The committee is recommending that the Ministry of Defence should explore areas of military collaboration with Turkey. This is obviously beyond the mandate of the Committee. The Committee does oversight on defence and foreign relations, how we engage with others, what we do, they cannot be the ones to direct where to engage in military terms. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know, I am not one of those Ministers who just say things that they do not know. What the Committee would do when they do oversight is to see what we do. Military engagements are very delicate issues. Parliament should provide oversight; are we procuring our arms properly, are we getting value for money, and so on and so forth? But not to direct the Government that we should engage in military collaboration with a particular country. There are many countries which are stronger militarily and more developed than Turkey. Why Turkey? view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to make a response to a few things that my very good friend, Mr. Keynan said in the process of moving his Motion. I would be quite happy if he could have restricted himself to the Motion, but he went way beyond and made what looked like personal attack on me. I do not want to take exceptions to that and I want to ask my brother, Mr. Keynan that we have come a long way to engage in civility towards our colleagues. I have never and I will never use harsh words ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Dublin we just have an ambassador and four officers. My colleague mentioned Somalia; who does not know the problems of Somalia? There are some countries whose ambassadors to Somalia are based here in Nairobi! We have a vision for Somalia; we have a liaison officer in Mogadishu and Hargeisa, but because of security problems in Somalia, our embassy runs our business on Somalia from Nairobi. There is nothing strange about that! As soon as Somalia normalizes, we will send our ambassador to Mogadishu. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: But, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be a highly irresponsible Minister of this Government if, tomorrow, I bundle out our ambassador and his entire staff to go to reside on a street where everybody has a Kalashnikov on his shoulder; I will be irresponsible! I want to be a responsible Minister; and I believe I am a responsible Minister! view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question of attaches generally, it is not my policy. This is a matter that was decided by the Cabinet; that we must multi-skill and withdraw attaches. Tell me today, if you send an agricultural attachĂŠ to London, what does he do? Look at the missions representing their countries in Nairobi – apart from one or two, each of those missions’ trade and commercial attaches are Kenyans; they are not called attaches but commercial officers. If you pick - as we used to do in the days of abuse – a trade licensing officer from ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is always good to have your facts right. The population of the United Arab Emirates is 7 million. The indigenous are 3.7 million, so where are the 5 million Indians? It is just simple arithmetic. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, India has a population of 1.3 billion people while Kenya has 40 million. We have 36,000 Kenyans working in Dubai. In Bahrain, we have 2000 Kenyans working there, Qatar, where we are opening a new mission, we have 6,000 Kenyans working there and they are growing. We want to give them these services. I ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: I urge Mr. Keynan that we need to be respectful of professionals. The doctor who wrote a report for Amb. Muchemi is a Nigerian physician who is licensed by the Board of Physicians in London. So, it is unfair for him to stand on the Floor of this House and call him a “Nigerian quack”. He is a doctor. We tested that report with local doctors in this country and they told us that the man was sick. We are not removing him because he was sick but because he had misconducted himself. He is now out of station and ... view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the rules of the House, the Mover of the Motion can lend his time to another hon. Member to contribute, but he cannot invite an hon. Member who has already contributed to the Motion to contribute again. view
• 15 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Chairman in order to continue making what looks like personalised response when all I said was, through my Ministry’s facilitation we have 36,000 Kenyans working in Dubai? I never said we got them jobs there. I said we facilitate. That is our work. view