Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, from Cuba, we went on to the United States of America. My delegation still included the hon. Members I mentioned with an addition of two colleagues from the Back Bench, Mr. Eugene Wamalwa and Mr. Hassan Joho, nominated by Parliament to join us. The Minister for Tourism, Mr. Najib Balala, was already in the USA promoting tourism. One of the milestones he achieved was that he has managed to fast-track the flying of Delta Airlines from America to Kenya which will start in due course. It will fly from Atlanta-Dakar-Nairobi; Nairobi-Dakar-Atlanta. This will be a major boost ... view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, while in America, we formed part of the great exuberance of the world in celebrating the ascension to power of President Barack Obama. Before I left here, I called the Press and made it clear that the tradition of the United States is that they never invite official delegations from any country including Canada, which is their neighbour, to attend the inauguration of their Heads of State. We were going to participate in major events which we did. One, there was a major delegation from Kenya to join our brothers and sisters in the United States to ... view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Secondly, there was a major Pan African event to which your foreign Minister was invited to give a keynote address, which I did. This event was organised by all African countries because there is not a single African country that is not represented in Washington. The AU through its Vice-chairman, Erastus Mwenje of Kenya was there and many others. In the course of being there, we attended the following beneficial meetings: We attended the Martin Luther Memorial where our Ambassador in the USA was given an honour. More importantly, it was an event that was marking the turning point in ... view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thereafter, I had a meeting with the following results. I met the Chairman of the Congressional Committee on African Affairs, Congressman Donald Payne and others, where we discussed several issues of bilateral nature between the Government and the people of Kenya and the United States of America. It may be recalled that Donald Payne has visited this country several times, including this 10th Parliament. view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thereafter, I had a meeting with the World Bank where we had the following successes. We were able to convince the World Bank to release to Kenya US$120 million to ameliorate and mitigate the famine problem that we have in this country. This will be done in the next fortnight. I was able to visit the Millennium Challenge Management Office where Kenya has lost out a Ja nuary 27, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have two points to go. view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Finally, there was a question relating to the road between Nakuru, Kericho and Busia. At the meeting with the World Bank, we were able to unlock the jinx that had followed the funding by the World Bank of that road. We were given a firm assurance that the money for the road from Mau Summit-Kericho-Kisumu and Busia will be disbursed and the road will be done. view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I was able to meet the Assistant Secretary of State for the simple reason that my counterpart, the Secretary of State, had not been sworn in, so she was not in office. We discussed regional issues including the implementation of the CPA Southern Sudan, the problems of Somalia including piracy, the problems of Congo which Kenya is chairing and how the new leadership in the USA can join this region in bringing peace, security and development in the region. view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I want to end by urging my colleagues to look and focus on the substance more than the form. view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view