Moses Masika Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, we have been part of this process and we want it to get to a conclusion that is helpful to everybody. When a House is legislating, there is a presumption that what you are legislating is constitutional. How can we say that this is unconstitutional, we will pass it but let it be challenged in court at an appropriate time? That amounts to abdication of responsibility. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: There is no doubt Sen. Okong’o is a very fine lawyer. He has been the Chairperson of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). Sen. Orengo is a senior lawyer while Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. is mercurial. They will help this House a lot more, particularly for colleagues who have no background in legal training, to understand that you cannot bring a legislation and tell the House: “This provision is an assault, affront and claw back on the Constitution, but pass it and let somebody challenge it in court.” This is what we are grappling with. On this, a point of ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I want the Chair, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and the Senate Minority Leader to remember the words of Kethi Kilonzo; that if the input is illegitimate, the outcome cannot be legitimate. What made me rise on a point of order that has led to this flurry of points of order was a statement from the Chair – and he is honest because he was reading from the Report – that this matter is unconstitutional. He ended up by compounding it even worse, by saying that those aggrieved may have to go to court after we pass an ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in Senate: where is.’ We are telling the Committee that the conclusions they have made are grossly inconsistent with what they are telling us, as a House, to do. They could have done better. We need to pass this amendment, but let us not pass an amendment and go down in history in ignominy as a House of Parliament that did something that jurisprudence will be sneering at, at every twist and turn. Sen. Omogeni, as you go through your Report from the Committee, we want you to help this House understand--- I do not believe that what is unconstitutional becomes constitutional ... view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the Petition by Mr. Justus on the Buxton Estate redevelopment. The issue of regeneration and redevelopment of old estates is a very good one. The problem is the mystery around this redevelopment and the eventual disenfranchising of people and families that have lived in these estates and houses for years. That is worrying. I am quite sure that if my good friend, Governor Joho, was going to seek another mandate from the people of Mombasa, he would have handled this matter differently. However, now that he is on ... view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: I want to urge the Committee that you are going to assign this Petition, probably the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources chaired by my good friend Sen. Mwangi, not to sit in boardrooms in Nairobi and invite witnesses. They should move to the site and go to Buxton in Mombasa and meet the complaining Kenyans who have lived in this estate for years. They should find out why public participation was not done and the agenda behind the redevelopment that looks like it is going to dispossess the original owners of these houses from continuing enjoyment of the ... view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: In this country, we have such callous developers. Even when we talked of slum upgrading in Kibera in Nairobi City County the eventual beneficiaries were not the slum dwellers; it was the rich people who got houses and started renting them out. We have this upgrading going on all over the country. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: I encourage the Ministry responsible for housing to borrow a leaf from Indonesia and Malaysia. These are countries that have done slum upgrading, redeveloped their poor neighbourhoods and benefited each and everybody. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: In this country, you will find that the people of Buxton, after redevelopment, will then be pushed off to go and become squatters in Kiembeni near the dumpsites and have serious health compromises. view