Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the volume that the counsel is referring to as volume one is not paginated. He had indicated that he had filed a separate volume that was properly paginated. Let us allow him to withdraw the documents that are not properly paginated and give us the volumes that are properly paginated. This exercise will be extremely painful if we proceed in the manner that we are proceeding. Let each party introduce their documents and substitute the ones they want so that we can proceed in a bit easier manner. view
• 14 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to put a question to the counsel for--- view
• 14 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My question goes to the counsel for the governor. I would like to refer him to volume one of his documents. On page seven, paragraph 20, there is an averment made by the governor that, in fact, there was a holding of the High Court, and this is in reference to Malindi ERC petition number E006, page seven of the bundle in paragraph 20. Counsel, Vol.I of the governor’s bundle, page seven. For heaven’s sake, my time is being wasted by things I have already said. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is ... view
• 14 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am referring to bundle Vol.I of the governor’s bundle on page seven. view
• 14 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Counsel, you have presented the averments at paragraph 20(a) as a holding of the court. That, in fact, the paragraphs you have superimposed there were a finding of the court. You are a lawyer of great repute, and reading a judgement, you can ascertain what a finding of the court is as opposed to an analysis of the presentation of the parties. The judgement referred to is on page 70 of that same bundle. I want the counsel for the governor to confirm to this House that, in fact, the paragraph quoted at 20(a) is ... view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. As you are aware, over the period of 16th to 31st August this year, I had the opportunity to visit the United States of America (USA) with your kind support. During that period, I had the opportunity to engage with Kenyans living in the USA, in the cities of Chicago, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Houston, including our diplomats at the Kenyan Embassy in Washington, D.C. That is the genesis of these questions that I have posed to the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs. view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: Unfortunately, as I speak, I have not received the hard copy responses; I hope the Secretariat is making arrangements. I am not aware whether the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs has actually submitted written responses. However, these are the questions, I will read the three of them. I am sure the Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs can answer all of them at once. I beg to ask Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs the following Question- (a) Could the Cabinet Secretary indicate the ... view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I even go to the supplementary questions, I am wholly disappointed by the quality of the response. I thought that the full title of the Cabinet Secretary of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs also puts him in charge of coordination of other Ministries. Surely, if there are issues that are in ministries other than the Foreign Affairs, I know we should direct it to the Ministry itself. However, being the person in charge of coordination of all the other ministries, I expected a more solid response. For instance, the response indicates that there is an ambassador and ... view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: . There was no ambassador. I do not know when he reported. Secondly, in the tabulation here, there is only one trade attache for a country that is as important as the USA. I would have expected a discussion on the adequacy. When I was there, I was given an example of a country such as Vietnam, which has four agricultural attaches, indicating the seriousness with which they take their job. I would have expected a discussion about the adequacy of the staff that have been deployed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you are telling us that you have one staff ... view
• 9 Oct 2024 in Senate: problems in these consulates because you cannot have one person manning a station. It just does not make any sense. That is the sort of discussion that I had expected. I had to express my disappointment in the answer, so that the Cabinet Secretary understands what I wanted to get from him. In terms of follow-up questions, first of all, the women in the USA asked me to ask you specifically why it is that way since 1963 up to today, with the first Kenyan ambassador, Burudi Nabwera, you have never seconded a woman as the ambassador of Kenya to ... view