Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 6441 to 6450 of 6535.

• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am not aware that the Artur brothers were based in Dubai, UAE before they ventured into Kenya. (b) The Artur brothers have never had contact with the Kenya Embassy in Abu Dhabi, UAE, neither has the Embassy provided them with consular or any other services. (c) The embassy officials have never facilitated any contact between the Artur brothers and senior officials or business personalities in Kenya. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Ligale knows I am very serious. The question is whether I am aware that the Artur brothers were based in Dubai and I have said that I am not aware. I do not know where they were based. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under international law, you either deport a person to his country of origin, the country where he is ordinarily domiciled or the country where he tells you it is safe for him to be deported to. That is what was done. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Winnie Wangui was an officer in my Ministry. She no longer is. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no requirement either in municipal or international law that when you deport somebody, he has to be under surveillance by the Interpol unless there is a warrant of arrest from another country, where Interpol has been asked to intervene and be involved, only then can such deportees be given escort. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not understand what my colleague is trying to say. This Government, and indeed any government, would have no business whatsoever policing any Kenyan who goes to the UAE or any other country to meet business people. view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: If any Kenyan of whatever name or description goes to the UAE for whatever reason or to meet whoever they want to meet, the Government of Kenya has no jurisdiction over such activities. If they met, which I do not know as I have said, the Government has not been informed about it. Be that as it may, my colleague may wish to know that a commission of inquiry was set up and the report was presented to His Excellency the President. It will be made public soon. The report will be tabled in this House and hon. Members can ... view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Last week, the hon. Member for Vihiga requested for a Ministerial Statement on the status of the situation in Somalia. Hon. Members will recall that after two years of peace and reconciliation talks at Mbagathi under Kenya's mediation, the people of Somalia, in an unprecedented and widely representative conference freely and democratically agreed to a transitional political settlement founded on a Federal Charter to end more than a decade-and-a-half of conflict. The charter and the transitional federal institution created the Transitional Federal Government (TNG) and the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) which were, subsequently, recognized ... view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, the issue of Somalia is very complex. When we relocated the TFG to Baidoa, you may recall that a group of warlords broke away. They went and set up camps in Mogadishu. They shared out the town, manning and collecting illegal revenue from the port, airport, airstrip and a major street. These warlords, under the guise of fighting terrorism, got heavy funding from a major power. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the process there emerged the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) to resist the rule of the warlords in Mogadishu. A war erupted and the warlords ... view
• 8 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we sent them away to give dialogue, peace and security an opportunity. It was at that time when the ICU emerged as a major force. Indeed, they have made Mogadishu fairly safe and habitable. I have visited it myself. However, what is worrying is the territorial expansion that they are undertaking and the hon. Member has mentioned this. That is why I have said our armed forces are on high alert in case this territorial expansion affects our peace and security. There is also a likelihood that the conflict in Somalia now is taking a dimension ... view