Sifuna Edwin Watenya

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• 28 Feb 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 Services,Senate. view
• 28 Feb 2024 in Senate: what has been accumulated over the years, especially the penalties imposed for those non-remittances. As Sen. Osotsi has said, Nairobi has now become notorious and infamous. If there is any money owed by county governments, Nairobi always takes the bulk of the share. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you talk about pending bills, Nairobi leads in pending bills with almost Kshs100 million unpaid to suppliers. The other day when we were discussing the Report by the Committee on Energy, Kenya Power is owed Kshs3.5 billion by all counties. Out of that, Kshs2.17 billion is for Nairobi County alone. Now, again, ... view
• 28 Feb 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 Services,Senate. view
• 27 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you are aware, I am a proud Member of the Committee that is led by Sen. Wamatinga. I wanted to calm the nerves of my colleague, the Senate Majority Leader, that indeed, we have serious Members in that committee. Some of the concerns that were raised have been addressed in that Report. He must have missed a few of those recommendations. In fact, we did interact with the spectre that you highlighted of people who are holding contracts for years on end without having done anything on the ground. At Page 56 of the Report, ... view
• 27 Feb 2024 in Senate: time to renegotiate some of the PPAs. I will be happy to disclose to you that many of those Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are not averse to those re negotiations. We do understand the contractual obligations that we got ourselves into are a bit restrictive in terms of what we can do and how far we can go. However, I am happy to report to this House that, that is a conversation that all those IPPs are willing to have with us. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we begun this conversation, we had one of the hustlers in my office ... view
• 27 Feb 2024 in Senate: What did the Committee do? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am very grateful, that out of the conversation we had, the Committee is also supportive of a legislative amendment, a Bill that I am sponsoring, to bring transparency, requiring that there be disclosure of beneficial ownership of all the companies who are supplying electricity to Kenyans. In fact, if you do not disclose, then you cannot do business with KPC or any other uptaker of electricity. Secondly, there is something called capacity charge. When I will be moving that Bill, I will explain a bit more. There is a charge ... view
• 27 Feb 2024 in Senate: straightforward solutions for the completion of certain power lines. For instance, the Turkwel-Ortum to Kitale Line that is supposed to evacuate power from, not just Turkwell, but also some of the projects that have been put there in terms of renewables like solar. Here is my disappointment in going through some of the proposals that have been brought before this House in the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). I have here the document that was presented to the Standing Committee on Energy. This is the brief of the 2024 BPS in the medium term. There is a very big difference between ... view
• 27 Feb 2024 in Senate: Also, sitting in this Committee is very interesting because you get to know things. As of now, counties owe KPC Kshs3.5 billion. Out of that, Kshs2 billion is owed by Nairobi City County. I will stand here another time, trying to argue for greater resources for Nairobi City County, because we are very unique. We are running a bill of Kshs2 billion on electricity alone. We have unique needs that other counties like Nyandarua might not be experiencing. I will ask for little extra money for Nairobi City County. This is because the Senator for Nyandarua also enjoys driving around ... view
• 21 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1), to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights regarding the predicament of Master Austin Karanja, a minor with hearing impairment, who was mauled by school dogs on 28th October, 2023 at the Isinya School for the Deaf while heading for his morning preps, and was subsequently forced to sit his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) in heavy bandages. In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) Explain why neither the school nor the security guards in charge of the dogs have been held ... view
• 21 Feb 2024 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view