Wahome Wamatinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 620.

• 1 Aug 2024 in Senate: accountability and governance to ensure that these three Land reports are implemented in the fullest. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I come from Nyeri County. If you travel along the road on your way to Nanyuki, you will find towns called Naromoru and Chaka confined within a very small piece of land, whereas hundreds of acres were illegally acquired by powerful individuals and they remain in their hands, while the people of Naromoru and Chaka Town continue to suffer. Not even a switch system can be constructed because all the land belongs to a few individuals. It is my humble submission ... view
• 1 Aug 2024 in Senate: Kenya is a signatory to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Some of them look at the issue of having urban places that are controlled with a clean environment, access to water and sanitary facilities. However, that cannot happen unless we are deliberate and have a unified approach in all the towns across the country. I sit in the Standing Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources. We get very many petitioners who have been pursuing matters since 1970. Some of the people who come to the Committee are 70, 80 or 90 years old. They tell us horrid stories of ... view
• 1 Aug 2024 in Senate: I support view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this Motion. I would want to start it off by thanking the Senators for 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 and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: rising to the occasion and debating this matter of national interest in a way that shows that we are all Kenyans. I was away for a couple of days in Rwanda as an observer for the ongoing elections, and was impressed by the Rwandese people. As we were going on with our duty and asking the people of Rwanda whom they were going to elect and which community one came from, they responded, “that is an ancient approach.” How I wish that our country would look at tribalism as an ancient approach that has nowhere in the history of this ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: have in this country, where for you to access credit facilities, you need collateral in form of movable or immovable assets. We know that the issue of land in Kenya remains as emotive as it was 60 years ago. We know that grandparents and parents who own those pieces of land may not be willing to give title deeds to their children to secure collateral loans that they need. Therefore, as we push for equal opportunities and ensure this is implemented, we must still look at the requirements, so that even younger generations can access those opportunities without referring them ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: their country depends on millions of people who go there because it is a tourist destination. It is one of the countries that you will see a headline announcing what has happened not based on facts, but sensation. It is high time we knew that this country belongs to all of us. Therefore, we should be responsible for anything we do, deliberate or commit ourselves to even after we have left office. I know that procurement in most county governments is done in a skewed way to favour a few people. You will find some counties using own source revenue ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: This is one of the countries where most leaders have foreign accounts with a lot of money that nobody can explain where it came from. It is high time we started the conversation of repatriating money stored in foreign accounts back into the country. If we do not do that, how do we ask Kenyans to pay for loans that were acquired and deposited in foreign countries, and never helped the people? Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I support, I urge all Members that it is high time we rose to the occasion and used this opportunity to demand repatriation of ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this Bill. Disaster management in all developed countries takes center stage, especially in urban development. It becomes an integral part of physical planning because increased population density per square kilometer comes with increased risks. Therefore, it is high time we, as a country and the county governments, start looking at the importance of having disaster management. This Bill goes a long way in establishing a framework that can be used to set up this important infrastructure. However, it is important to note that the diversity of our ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: have a firefighting machine and had to get one from Nyeri County. When we got there, it broke down and therefore, it was not able to put out the fire. We had to get one from Kirinyaga County. You can imagine the total time taken for a fire engine to drive from Kirinyaga to Laikipia. It is therefore imperative that as we come up with the framework, we also look at the needs of each county and ensure that the machines and equipment they are using are tailor-made to suit their own needs. It is also not lost on us ... view