Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support this Sessional Paper. I would like to point out that when children are engaged in illegal labour because of poverty, they grow up with a missing link in their life. This Report says that there is no comprehensive or up- to-date child labour statistics which is a key component to sustainable child labour interventions. We cannot address these issues without statistics. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology must take up this matter very seriously so that it can heavily invest in investigation of intervention measures to curb child labour. We ... view
• 6 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: school. We should allow them to enjoy their childhood. That is why our prisons are full and we are fighting criminals on our streets. Our streets are frequented by boys and girls sniffing glue. During the implementation of this policy, the Government must allocate funds to address child labour. If we fail to do that, our children will be roaming the streets and growing up to become dangerous criminals. We will have an increase in criminal activities. Hon. Speaker, we must support poor families living in informal settlements, especially in urban centres like Nairobi. Children in those areas already have ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would also like to comment on this Petition. Land grabbing especially in Nairobi, where it is prime, has become so rampant that the National Land Commission should come up with a proper way to control the bad manners from some members of the public who have an appetite for any open land. Any land set aside for public utility is now being grabbed left, right, and centre. The Nairobi County Government is not doing anything about it. We would like to appeal to the NLC to come up strongly and stop these bad manners. We ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also wish to support this Bill. Kenya is a great country with great people. If you travel out of this country you will realise that we take our country for granted. We have raised great men and women in this country and yet we have not preserved any literature about them. This will be beneficial to those who visit Kenya and want to know more about this country. A good example is the history of the father of the current President of America, Barack Obama. If you go to India, you will find the ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: for one of his late wives. It is a place that mints a lot of money for the Indian Government. I am very sure that when we open up this Kenyatta Mausoleum to the public and other people, it will generate a lot of income to the Government. It will also give a lot of information about our leaders. When we talk about the Kapenguria Six, the younger generation may not know who they were. They may only know about the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta because he went on and became the President. People may not know that Paul Ngei, ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Kenyatta. Sometimes you are hungry for knowledge but there is very little you can learn. If you want to know who Kenyatta, Tom Mboya, Elijah Masinde and Masinde Muliro were, you will really find nothing much out there. Until we open this mausoleum, we will not show the world that we care about our heroes and the people who fought for the Independence of this country. It is unfortunate that most of them died. If you visit various towns, you will notice some roads have been named after these great people, but we do not know who they were. If ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: women of England very well preserved. So, we need to preserve the history, legacy and heritage of our country through the preservation of the history of the people who have contributed immensely to the development of our country, especially those who fought for our freedom. We should not forget those who continue to bring great glory to our country, including our athletes. We have read about Kipchoge Keino. We see him, but we know little about him and yet he was a great athlete. He is one of the people who brought international fame to our country. Other countries have ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to make a few comments on this Bill. There is an amendment on the Copyright Act. In this country, the people who put in a lot of efforts in the creativity industry do not benefit much. Piracy thrives in the sector. Kenyans who work very hard to make livelihoods from that industry end up living in abject poverty. This amendment will streamline how the copyright benefits can reach them. In this digital era, most of the young people do not understand how they are supposed to benefit from their efforts. In countries like Congo, ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: I support the Bill. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to support the repealing of this Act. These archaic laws that still exist in our books ought to have been cleaned up long time ago. This shows that we still have a hangover for our former colonial masters. I believe we are moving in the right direction by repealing some of these pieces of legislation. As the previous speakers have said, anything that fell under this legislation should be transferred to the relevant authorities. I wish to support that this Act be repealed. Any other existing legislation that may have been overlooked needs to ... view