Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 221 to 230 of 1870.

• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: No. Okay, Sen. Sifuna, please. view
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to briefly comment on the statements by Sen. Faki and Sen. Hamida. However, before I do so, this is the last Sitting of the week before a major event happens in Addis Ababa. I am happy that Sen. Olekina is back from Addis. He was there overnight to just ensure that everything is okay. He has assured me that everything is going well. After this Sitting, he will also be leaving back for Addis to view
• 13 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
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: ensure that everything goes well. I wish Baba and the team that is there representing us well. The rest of us are here holding the fort. We have treated the people who work in our medical institutions with absolute contempt. I remember last year in the last session, medical interns were seated here. We, as a House, had made a promise to them that we were going to support them to ensure that not only are they absorbed into the workforce, but also that they were fairly treated and remunerated per their qualifications. I remember the big debate on whether ... view
• 13 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
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: If you do the math, it is over Kshs120 million per month that SHA is supposed to pay in Mbagathi Hospital. However, SHA is paying Mbagathi Hospital a measly Kshs15 million per month. How are they supposed to provide services? As I speak today, SHA owes Mbagathi Hospital alone Kshs400 million. Then, we expect these hospitals to serve the people of Nairobi? Therefore, we must raise these issues. We want the committee that has been charged with these two statements to ensure that they come to the bottom of all these issues so that we are able to not only ... view
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the constitutional mandate of oversight to county governments is vested in only one institution; the Senate, for which the member of Nandi is a member. Is it in order for him to demand that a political party, which he knows does not have the same powers as this House, rein in members of the CoG, even if they belong to my political party? view
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to take this opportunity, not only as Senator for Nairobi City County, but as one of the leaders in this House, to welcome our students to the Senate this afternoon. I hope that you get to learn a few things about how we do our business here. I am hoping that there are future Senators in the group that has visited us today. Since their home Senator is not here, so I undertake that between myself and the newly minted Chair of the County Public Accounts Committee (PAC), we shall ensure that ... view
• 13 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. I want to make it clear that I support it. We are famously known as the children who grew up under the Nyayo regime. I remember he used to tell us that when you cut one tree, you plant two. That was one of his rallying calls. I do not know why Sen. Abdul Haji has proposed in this particular amendment under Clause 4 that you cut one, you plant one instead of what Nyayo used to tell us, that you cut one, plant ... view