Wahome Wamatinga

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• 23 May 2024 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 23 May 2024 in Senate: Using the e-platform there is a possibility to use a doctor in India to conduct an operation using technology that is used in the UK. This will ensure that we get maximum benefits of our health services while ensuring that the cost benefit is also ascertained. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know that this country is one of the many in Africa that suffers from low technology. Therefore, the application of e-Health, will ensure the transferability and mobility and application of e-services through Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enhanced. Therefore, our people will enjoy more advanced services from our hospitals. view
• 23 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know that Kenya has produced some of the best doctors. However, after their studies and work experience, they end up going to foreign countries to work there. This brain drain can only be stopped if we compensate them appropriately. That cannot happen so long as we do not have the right technology that will ensure our people get the right services. As I wind up so that I can give my colleagues a chance to also contribute, It is important to note that the success of devolution cannot be ascertained, fulfilled or met unless we ... view
• 22 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the spirit in which Sen. Wambua has raised his statement. However, I would want to enrich his understanding of project management and initiation in the spirit of one Kenya. It has been said and truthfully so, that Sen. Mungatana has been a victim of water overflowing from the Seven Forks Dams. If we embrace the one-Kenya approach, where we look at one community benefit as a benefit for all Kenyans, then we will embrace projects that benefit two or three counties, which will in the long run benefit the ... view
• 22 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I had gone to consult with my friends. My question is on geospatial surveying. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, we know that the county governments have been conducting geospatial surveys, and your Ministry, despite the fact that agriculture is a devolved function, is also planning to spend or request budget allocation of Kshs416 billion. Would it not be cheaper for you to work in collaboration with the county governments, and use the geospatial survey that they have done and maybe customise it to your needs, so that you would not be doing what the ... view
• 21 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to make a comment on this statement. Indeed, I come from a tea-growing region and we produce some of the best quality tea in Kenya. The problem that we have been facing as farmers across board is that we have never taken a firm position on how we can empower our farmers, be it on tea, coffee, avocado or macadamia. Indeed, tomorrow, as we reflect on tea consumers and growers, we must ask ourselves what is it that we have done for the tea farmers. I am happy to report ... view
• 21 May 2024 in Senate: 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
• 21 May 2024 in Senate: Government. More important, is creating mechanisms where farmers can seek and access markets internationally directly. As we do so, it is also important to ask ourselves whether we have been doing enough to ensure that there is value addition in our produce; be it tea, coffee, macadamia or avocado and whether it does justice to our farmers. With a bit of attention and the diversity of knowledge in this House, we can enrich our farmers by ensuring that the value chain gets down there. As we do so, it is also important to report that for the first time, we ... view
• 21 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for a long time, farmers have been left in the periphery. Decisions have been made in Nairobi and have been implemented down there. However, with a transformative bottom-up economic approach, farmers are now participating in a collaborative manner by being engaged so that they become decision-makers for the decisions that will influence them. Additionally, we have seen the Kenya-Kwanza Government strengthen the cooperative movement through its leadership. That will ensure that farmers are able to reap from their collective bargain by ensuring that they pull together their resources so that they can make better bargains and ... view
• 9 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am one of those who believe that when life serves you a lemon, you should make lemonade out of it. As the Chairperson of the Committee on Energy, we have been fighting to make sure that the cost of power is brought down and make power reliable. This is a classical example of how unreliable our power supply is. I want to take this opportunity that has presented itself to request all Members of this House--- There is a moratorium by the National Assembly. We are not able to look at alternative power generation means. ... view