Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute in full support of this Bill. May I also take this opportunity to thank my learned senior for the kind words he has said about me in his concluding remarks. If you look at the Bill and the Statute it intends to repeal, you will ask yourself in what frame of mind the Parliament that passed this Bill was. It is very difficult to come to terms with the Bill that is so latently unconstitutional, whose contents are repulsive, discriminatory and not fit to be a law ... view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: 30 Thursday, 8th April, 2010(P) secretary and constitute a court. They pass judgment by vote. You know very well that the District Commissioner cannot have his subordinate voting against him. Thirdly, in case of a tie over and above his original vote the District Commissioner has a casting vote. So, if the District Commissioner sat with his secretary and for some strange reason the secretary said; “No, Bwana DC”, the District Commissioner will cast another vote and send somebody to jail. This is a collective shame to us. We should never have allowed a thing like this to happen in ... view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it did not have to take hon. Affey to scan through the Statute books and identify this as a bad law and bring it to this House. It is the duty of the Law Reform Commission to scan through our laws and weed out the wheat from the chaff. It should advise Parliament, the line Ministries and Attorney-General that we do not need this law in our statute books today. That is the duty we have given them and we vote money for them. I want to urge them and the line Minister – I wish ... view
• 8 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: 31 Thursday, 8th April, 2010(P) River and Lamu. It will also teach us a lesson that we should never let such things happen to our country again. Justice must be for all. All must be equal before justice, entitled to due process and treated equally irrespective of gender, status and anything else. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support the Bill. view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Indeed, I salute the hon. Member for Naivasha for this forward looking piece of legislation from a Private Member. Indeed, I would have imagined that this is a Bill which the Ministry responsible for youths and sports would have co-sponsored with the hon. Member because of its importance. 26 Wednesday, 7th April, 2010(A) Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you remember that at one time, there was a military man in Nigeria called “General Murtala Mohammed”. When he came to power, he had a ... view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: You may recall that in the last Parliament, hon. Kembi-Gitura brought a Motion here which was passed. The Motion stopped satcheting alcohol in small miniature packets for every youth to be able to pick five bob from a Member of Parliament so that they could buy alcohol. That Motion was never implemented. But more important, I think that we who were in the Seventh Parliament take responsibility for mutilating the Chiefs Authority Act. This Act, at that time, used to do some of the issues Mr. Mututho has included in this Bill. Consumption of alcohol per se is not a ... view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think he should also include the warning, “Excessive Consumption of Alcohol Causes Temporary Impotence in Men”, as we have just heard from the gracious lady from Nyeri. You have seen women in Murang’a and Kangemi frog- matching men to chiefs’ offices for two reasons: Excessive consumption of alcohol and going home and not being any different from their women, in terms of performance of their 27 Wednesday, 7th April, 2010(A) matrimonial responsibilities. This is what alcohol does to people and we must support hon. Mututho fully. I hope that during the Committee Stage, he ... view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: The issue of selling alcohol to persons under the age of 18 years is our biggest problem in this country. If you go to the United States of America (USA), even a mature person like yourself, even if you are as old as mzee ole Ntimama, and you walk into a bar to buy alcohol, you must produce your identity to show that you are an adult, even when you are visibly adult, to prove that you are of adequate age to buy and consume alcohol. We must import that into this law, so that we can ensure that, not ... view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have seen what alcohol has done to our people. We had the Machakos and Mai Mahiu cases. You recall the painful statement of somebody saying: “ Hata mkizima taa, nitaendelea kunywa tu ”, when, in fact, he had been rendered blind because of alcohol consumption. Do we want the country to go that route? I want to urge Parliament, particularly the Committee that oversights the enforcement of a Bill such as this, to help mount civic education to the whole country, to make sure that the Provincial Administration ensures enforcement of non-consumption of alcohol ... view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view