Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1681 to 1690 of 1820.

• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: The way I understand him, and I am sorry, Senator, I was not here when you moved the Motion, is that we at least borrow from the Nile Treaty on having a minimum guaranteed volume of water flowing in the river constantly. Even during the dry season, the people downstream can be assured that X amount of water or that the volume of water will not fall below a certain line to guarantee them that there will be water for the animals, human use and other projects downstream such as irrigation. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: This is something that I do not think any of the counties upstream would have a problem with. I know the Temporary Speaker is from Garissa County. When we visited Garissa as well during the campaigns, we were told that even for you, you have been limited in the amount of water that you can abstract from that river yet downstream your colleagues are crying of being flooded by the same water. 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: We should support a policy that takes into account of every need at every stage of the river to ensure that those upstream can derive benefit and those downstream are not encumbered with flooding. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: This is a good Motion which I support fully. I would want to see this Senate resolve that in fact, there be some form of agreement with all the stakeholders including the power producers, Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and the other counties including Garissa that would want abstraction of water. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: It is quite ridiculous, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am sure from your house you can see the river but in Garissa Town, there is a problem of flowing water. It does not make any sense. We must come up with a policy when we are constructing such large scale damming projects. Now that we have been promised another 100 dams by this Government, let it be a template for all the other projects so that we do not have to deal with these matters perennially. view
• 16 Nov 2022 in Senate: I support. view
• 10 Nov 2022 in Senate: Bw. Spika, naamini ya kwamba Seneta anaposimama kuzungumza hapa, lazima aweze kuzungumza maswala ambayo anaweza kudhibitisha. Sidhani ya kwamba Seneta wa Kaunti ya Mombasa - ambaye namheshimu sana - anaweza kutoa idhibati yoyote kuonyesha kwamba uvutaji wa bhangi unapelekea watu kuruka vichwa. Hiyo ndiyo hoja yangu ya nidhamu. view
• 9 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion in its current form, as amended by the Members of this House. I congratulate the spirit of bipartisanship that has been exhibited by Members of this House this afternoon. I am a firm believer that we can find objectivity when we mean to. We can agree that in spite of political divisions, for Sen. Kinyua, the sun rises from the East and sets in the West. That is the same for Sen. Sifuna from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party. There are things we can see clearly, that this ... view
• 9 Nov 2022 in Senate: I also appreciate you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for having indulged us, as Members, and being willing to listen to the concerns that we have raised, regarding the manner in which our nominee, especially from the Minority side, had been proposed. view