Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 81 to 90 of 1812.

• 20 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I want to take the second Statement. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education regarding the delay and failure to remit capitation funds to public schools currently amounting to Kshs64 billion in arrears. In the Statement, the Committee should address the following- (1) The reasons why the National Treasury has failed to release capitation funds despite the urgent cash flow challenges facing public schools across the country. (2) The long-term strategies in place to prevent delays in the disbursement of capitation and ensure continuous ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. For me, the Statement by the Senator of Lamu is most critical. We are halfway through the term of this Parliament and the term of everyone who was elected in 2022. The entire discussion for t he remainder of the period should be about development and development-spending. Here in Nairobi, we got some curious information from the Controller of Budget (CoB) that the County of Nairobi City had spent zero on development in the last financial year. I am happy that the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations chaired very ably by Senator of Wajir, ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: individual counties. That is the only way we can ascertain that there is equity in the spending of national resources, remembering that the national Government will borrow without any reference to the county governments or this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have no sight over that spending. That spending will be spent however they want, but when it comes to payment, all of us are on the hook. Therefore, this is a conversation we should focus on for the remainder of the term. view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senator for Kisumu has assured me that he is not more than five minutes away, but we cannot keep the House waiting. So, I will proceed to ask the questions on his behalf. This is Question No.024 by the Senator for Kisumu County, Sen. (Prof.) Tom Odhiambo Ojienda, SC- Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the following three questions to the CS for Defence- (1) Could the Cabinet Secretary clarify whether the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) monitors the security situation within the country and indicate the state of preparedness of the KDF to address potential ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Madam Cabinet Secretary, I saw a very curious statement from your Ministry on 17th March, 2025, regarding the circumstances surrounding the deployment of KDF in July, 2024. As you know, I am a firm believer in the freedom of the media. We must accept that we were all very concerned to see the army in the streets after the protests. My party leader has addressed certain possibilities given histories in other places, including Sudan and Egypt. What, in your view or of the Ministry, was inaccurate in the report by The Daily view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: regarding the possibility of this country being handed over to the military in the event the regime collapsed in July, 2024? You need to tell us because the statement said that the report by The Daily Nation was false, baseless, misleading and reckless. Please explain to me what was the basis of that conclusion by your Ministry. I thank you. view
• 18 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I thank you for the confidence in both the Senator for Meru and I to execute that duty that you sent us to do on behalf of the House. Indeed, we have had a conversation with members of the KMPDU and also UHC workers from across the country. They were the guests who were making all that merry outside our gate. As the Senator for Meru has said, these are not new matters. It is compliance by the national Government and the county governments with a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that was signed after ... view
• 18 Mar 2025 in Senate: hope that you will agree to this, hon. Speaker, to a meeting that will happen with the Committee on Health of this House. We have proposed that we invite the Chair of the Council of Governors (CoG), who are representatives of the CoG, together with the Cabinet Secretary responsible for health. We will provide the necessary environment for all these issues to be ironed out in a manner that will leave everybody satisfied on the challenges that the Government is facing on the CBA and all these other issues of absorption of UHC workers. From then on, we can at ... view
• 18 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 18 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you for that direction, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My last request is that you allow me to table the Petitions that we have received. view