Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 91 to 100 of 1870.

• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I second. view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker I rise to second. First, I take this opportunity to thank the committees, the joint committees of JLAC and the committee on Devolution and Inter-Governmental Relations for the good work they have done. We were just having this discussion with Senator for Narok. I wish that the recommendations of the committee were stricter than what have been recommended. Yesterday we woke up to a headline story that there is one lawyer who represented the Nairobi City County Government in a suit involving a land squabble between the county and the military. That lawyer has been awarded Kshs1.3 ... view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker I was saying the committee should have gone further because if you look at the total pending bills for Nairobi, which stand over Kshs100 billion, Kshs20 billion is pending bills owed to advocates. I can say here without fear or favour that although I am an advocate myself, lawyers in this country have abused this legal fee system in our counties to siphon money from county governments and from the people of the country and especially the people of Nairobi. It is unconscionable because when the committee says that the bill should be charged according to the ... view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: nature that require special expertise. I can assure you that the matter that was handled by this so-called expert lawyer that is being paid Kshs1.3 billion can very well be handled by a young lawyer who would not demand the same fees especially where the matter is resolved in the manner in which this one was resolved. The question of expertise is being abused. I have every faith in every advocate who was qualified to be able to handle any matter. Although we do not discount the value of experience, I insist that this thing called expertise is being misused ... view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: bills verification task force led by Kamotho Waiganjo and the entire work that they did to tell us which bills are payable and which ones are not was trashed by the courts. So, the county governments are increasingly finding themselves in a very difficult situation. If you look at the veracity of these bills, you will note that some of them are admittedly not payable because of the manner in which the procurement was done. You will also note that the amount of work that was done is not commensurate to what these lawyers are asking for. After the enactment ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, on accuracy and statement of fact, is the Senator for Nandi in order to allege that I signed a pact between ODM and UDA? Could he be made to substantiate? view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: If the Senator for Nandi can produce any document signed by Edwin Sifuna, on behalf of ODM with any political party called UDA, I will resign today as the Senator for Nairobi. Let him bring it here and substantiate what he is saying. I have never signed any agreement and I do not intend to sign any agreement, as Sen. Edwin Sifuna, with UDA Party. view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: That is what you said. The HANSARD is there. view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I strongly object to some of these insinuations that somehow ODM is the one running this Panel. If you read the newspapers today, you would think that there is a war between me and Sen. Wambua. It will not happen. Sen. Wambua and I will never fight. The truth of the matter is that we also do not want these incessant accusations against ODM. If you hear the names of the constituencies by-elections that are being mentioned, the majority of them are held by ODM. The ODM is holding Ugunja, Magarini and we have a nominee to ... view