Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me begin by saying that I share in the frustrations that have been expressed by the Senate Majority Leader, because I sit with him in the SBC and so do you. If you look at the matters that are in the Order Paper, it is sometimes very difficult for us to clean the Order Paper, and I am sure that each one of us is interested in making sure that their business moves. At least I can speak for those Senators on the Minority side. We have tried to develop a system where they tell ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 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 Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: It is not the Whips' job to carry Senators physically on their backs and deliver them to the House. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale can bear me witness. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am pretty surprised by the path that Sen. Oketch Gicheru has taken because I also take him to nice places, especially in the evenings. So, do not take it personally if I ask that you show me where you usually go in the afternoon. I want to conclude that this Calendar is extremely tight because of the slow pace at which business moves. If we can commit, I wanted to suggest to the Majority Leader that we should designate special days for putting the questions and divisions, so that it is mandatory for people to ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Even yesterday, when we debated having cheaper electricity and putting infrastructure in place, we realized that other countries have done the same to encourage investment in their countries, resulting in jobs. So, it is not that we are exporting labour. We have been unable to create opportunities for people here. If you speak to the people who have spent their lives in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, or the U.S. doing manual jobs, they would like to come back home. That is the message they told me to carry when I came back; that they would like to return home. ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Throw these people out. view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to give my views on the Bill. I have identified what I consider positives in the Bill and those that, in all honesty, I have problems with. I will not take the path that has been taken by the Senator for Migori to wholesale condemn the Bill because in my view, there are some good provisions. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me start with the things that I consider positive. If you look at Clause 4 of the proposed Bill; what they set out and call guiding principles of disaster risk management. There is ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: guiding principle to disaster management, we must identify all hazards that result from a disaster. The next one I like is under subclause (2) which is enhancing the capacity of the local communities as the frontline to disaster risk management. Many speakers here have given examples of the disasters that have happened in Nairobi. Take an example of the floods that we experienced. If you speak to the people living in those structures along the rivers, no person puts themselves at risk voluntarily. They have been forced into some of these risky accommodations because of their financial standing. The accommodations ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the next thing that I consider positive in this proposed Bill is found in Clause 48 which introduces a fine for people who make false claims. There are people who claim to be victims yet they are not. We have seen this spectre even here in Nairobi. The heads of Nyumba Kumi, chiefs and the local administration have tried their best but there is this spectre here in Nairobi. The problems of the people are so entrenched and bigger than what is actually put out there. There could be someone living in another constituency, separate from where ... view
• 18 Sep 2024 in Senate: management is shared, you should see that reflected even in the composition of the board or the authority. However, if look at Clause 9 on the composition of the authority, five out of the nine members are direct national Government appointees, yet this is a shared function. There is only one representative from the Council of Governors (CoG). That is an imbalance that we continue to protest as a Senate. We feel that if a function is shared, then it should reflect even in the balance of the numbers in the management of the authority. Clause 29 attempts to classify ... view