Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1671 to 1680 of 1820.

• 17 Nov 2022 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
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: My colleague, the Secretary General from the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), can confirm that we were both in agreement during the campaigns, that we want increased allocation to the counties. view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: When such a matter comes here, I expect some bipartisanship. Let us increase the resources being allocated to counties. Other than that, let us try and ring fence them so that it is specific that these extra resources do not go back to do recurrent expenditure. For example, here in Nairobi City County, we are almost at 56 per cent in terms of what we have spent from what we were allocated. Most of it goes to recurrent expenditure, especially salaries and wages. We can ring fence the additional allocation to go only to development so that we can achieve ... view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: With those few remarks, I support the Bill. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Allow me to join the colleagues who have risen to support this Motion by the distinguished Senator from Tana River. The argument for dams, at least where I come from has always been to try and mitigate the effects of flooding downstream. It is a tragedy as Sen. Mandago has put is that in fact the people downstream Tana River had to suffer the tragedy of flooding from view
• 16 Nov 2022 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
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: water that is released from a dam which we are told most of the time, it is spilled in order to stem downstream flooding. On the River Nzoia, for instance, where I come from in Bungoma County, there is an argument to dam River Nzoia so that we can limit the effects of flooding downstream especially in the Lake Victoria Basin. This is a very timely discussion because we are aware that this Government has told us that they intend to build 100 more dams. If the experience of the people of Tana Delta is anything to go by, then ... view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: These mega projects that we come up with must be beneficial to us. I am happy about the Senators asking to see the environmental impact assessment of where this project was being done. As much as we are getting electricity from the dams that are upstream, we must not negatively affect the lives of people downstream. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: I want to assuage the fears of my brother, Sen. Wambua. The way I understand Sen. Mungatana MGH, he is requesting for a policy in line with the Nile treaty. It is not to having the same colonial imposition of terms on people who are upstream. I followed closely the debate on Ethiopia building the Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile that almost brought a conflict that had the potential to escalate to war. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: I do not think that is what the people of Tana River are talking about. There can be an agreement on the use or the volume of the water of the river without reference to the counties that are upstream. I know Sen. Mungatana, MGH, to be a very accommodative person. As a lawyer, I do not think he would want anything to be reached upon without the participation of all the stakeholders. view