Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 201 to 210 of 1870.

• 20 Feb 2025 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
• 20 Feb 2025 in Senate: There is an allegation at one of the fire stations a female firefighter was raped by a colleague. There are attempts within the leadership of the Nairobi City County Government to ensure that the perpetrator is protected. You can imagine the sort of mess that we are in at our fire departments here in Nairobi. In addition to the statement by Sen. Tobiko, I will personally be also presenting that same statement to the committee. The good thing is that I am now in that committee. There will be no cover up of that heinous crime here in Nairobi. Whoever ... view
• 20 Feb 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when somebody is called to substantiate--- view
• 20 Feb 2025 in Senate: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. When a Senator is called to substantiate, they must provide something to back their claims. You cannot take us down a rabbit hole trying to teach us English and Literature. Even I, who is not a Njuri Ncheke elder like the Deputy Speaker, can tell when somebody is being clever. You are a person who has the capacity to tell when a Senator is being clever. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want you to rule the Senator for Kiambu County out of order. In fact, he has added insult to injury with the claims that ... view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, as the Senator for Nairobi, where we are seated today, I take this opportunity on behalf of the House to welcome the delegation from the Office of the Leader of Opposition in Uganda. I must say that as a leader of opposition in Kenya, it is very easy to be in the opposition in Kenya because we are protected by a very robust Constitution for which many people died to ensure that we have the freedom to speak, freedom to associate and freedom to exercise our own choices. Unfortunately, for our friends in Uganda, some people in Kenya ... view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, I was saying that it is something that causes me personal pain and embarrassment as the Senator for Nairobi that Dr. Besigye faces the things he is facing right now, including an illegal and unconstitutional court martial. He was abducted in my own City of Nairobi. It causes me great embarrassment as a Kenyan that we handed over Dr. Kizza Besigye, who is a personal friend of mine, to the authorities in Uganda. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court of Uganda has said that the trial is unconstitutional and should be discontinued, the State in Uganda ... view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is an honour to go after my Deputy Party Leader has spoken on the position of the party. First, I want to echo the words that the Senator for Vihiga County has said. We, as ODM, are extremely proud of the campaign that was run by our party leader, Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. We are extremely proud because even some of us who are way younger than us were envious of his energy to put in all those hours of flights, to go to all those capitals to speak to all of those people so ... view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: I can see Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is looking at me. If Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale sends somebody to represent him at a function in Malinya, and that person has questionable character like, for instance, is a night runner, murderer or has bad manners generally, the reputation of that person rubs on you as a candidate. I want to say very clearly that there is a consensus that there was nothing wrong with our candidate. The problem, as I see it and I understand it, is the bad manners of the Republic that he was fronted by. I want to go through ... view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: biggest countries and most influential countries in that particular bloc is South Africa. South Africa lost 13 soldiers out of that eruption of violence in eastern DRC just a few weeks ago. The feeling that I have seen amongst many of these people is that conflict and the emergence of violence were mishandled by the regions, especially by Kenya. The evidence is the fact that when our Head of State called for a regional summit to discuss that conflict, the DRC refused to attend. These political decisions that we make here internally have global implications. The positions we take as ... view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: Madam, Temporary Speaker, it is going to mess with my flow of thought, but let him inform me. view