Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Oct 2015 in National Assembly: This is a very important piece of legislation. It is going to create reforms in the Judiciary. I believe it is a way of trying to improve efficiency in our courts. With those few remarks, I support the Bill. Thank you. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to speak on this. I will be very brief. I only want to touch on two issues - sports and internally displaced persons (IDPs). I would like to agree with the previous speaker on this issue. Some of these functions are national and cannot be devolved. Counties cannot be stopped from participating in sports. They cannot take the role of the national Government, especially when it comes to national functions of sports. For example if we are sending the Kenya national team, counties can participate at the local level. That has been going on. ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: The issue of IDPs will happen in our country and counties will definitely get involved in it. But this is a security issue. It should still remain the function of the national Government. It can involve the county government when something has happened in a particular region, but we cannot say that they share this function almost at an equal level. We were saying that the security issue should remain a national function. When something happens in a certain area, the county government has a responsibility to report and take part in managing it. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of disaster management and preparedness. This is very important because we find that whenever something happens and whenever there is a disaster, we are always unprepared. Right now, we have been warned that the El Nino rains are coming. The kind of preparedness that we are putting in place is not going to help us very much. We need to look at the whole issue of disaster management. This is affecting most of our people, especially in urban areas, where Members who have urban constituencies are - almost on a daily basis - handling emergency ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: emergencies. There are Government functionaries who are supposed to handle them. For example in Nairobi, most of the areas which were set aside for building fire stations were sold by some corrupt people. Now, a place like Westlands - a city within a city - does not have a single fire unit. So, when something happens, we have to call the fire station that is stationed at Central Business District (CBD) in the City centre. It is something that we must look into. This is an area where the county governments ought to be involved. They must also be prepared ... view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: We know very well that some of the issues of IDPs are human-made. We have been grappling with security issues. We are wondering whether governors can handle them or not. It has been a very thorny issue and, as we speak, the governors are excluded. They are not exactly in it. They are saying that governors must chair those meetings for them to participate when insecurity happens within their region. view
• 30 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: I support some of these amendments, but some of them should remain the functions of the national Government. They should not be devolved to the counties. view
• 29 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am not very sure about this amendment about competitive process. What is contained in the Act is better. I do not know what they intend to achieve in this area because they will just introduce politics into these appointments. When you just leave it vague like this, that there will be a competitive process without providing how it is going to be done, it will introduce politics. view
• 29 Sep 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, first, I wanted to make my contribution on the earlier amendment but you ignored me. On this one, I support this amendment, especially that part dealing with social impact assessment of the plan with reference to disadvantaged people, including people with disability, women and the youth. These are very valid amendments. I support. view
• 20 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I support this amendment, there is a very thin line between the doctrines of separation of powers between the various arms of the Government. The three arms of Government operate interdependent of each other but they still pull in the same direction. However, when one arm of Government tries to gag the other arm of Government from functioning normally, it disables functions of the other arm of Government and it can therefore paralyze the normal functioning of the other arm of Government. This amendment talks about when a Member of Parliament does something ... view