Wahome Wamatinga

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• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: family kind of approach where the governors in most counties do not even know what happens. Therefore, we must also put into place structures and systems to ensure that we do not only account for the water that has been harvested and reticulated, but also ensure that transparency and governance are written in capital letters. The spirit of the Bill is to ensure that moving forward, water becomes a tradable commodity and that we have responsible boards that are manning these water service providers. As we do that, it should not be lost to us that some of these water ... view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: of dams that were promised in the 1960s have not been realised up-to-date because of the challenges in the balance sheet of the country. As I said at the beginning, the Government approach today is to have Public Private Partnership (PPP) where you will let private equity flow into the construction of dams, development of the infrastructure and reticulation works, which can be paid off like it is with the Expressway. I would want to urge my colleagues to keep their eyes wide open especially with the water service providers. We have a gap in terms of governance and management. ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the report by Sen. Osotsi. The issue of water reticulation and service providers has been wrongly handled for a long time. Indeed, Senators uphold and are determined to protect devolution. That being the case, we know this function is devolved and it must be undertaken by the counties. However, it must not be lost to us that we have aspects of water in some counties that cannot be handled by the county government alone and there must be concerted efforts by regional bodies. I support water development agencies because ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: In Kieni East and Kieni West, we have a proposed Karimenu Dam and Naromoru that was proposed back in the 60s. However, garnering resources and the budget required to come up with those dams has remained a challenge. That can be achieved if we adopt this new approach of public-private partnerships; where we make water a tradeable commodity and ensure that private equity flows into the business. On non-revenue water, some companies have up to 70 percent and that cannot be left unchallenged because, if we can address the issue of non-revenue water, we can generate enough resources to address ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: technology and also water usage services, we can ensure that most of the water that we take into our houses is intelligently used. I do remember, one of the Motions that I tabled when I came to this House was application of intelligent water usage in buildings. As we do with the movement sensors that chart the light on and off depending on whether the room is occupied, we can also have water reticulation system that is intelligent so that you do not have somebody using one bucket of water to brush their teeth, yet they could use a quarter ... view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Communication that you have just made. It is, indeed, a very sad affair that we are chosen by the electorate--- view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Indeed, when we campaign in this country, we promise all kinds of good things to our electorate. Unfortunately, when some of us get into office, they forget the very same things that they promised. I have heard from my neighbor here, the Senator of Isiolo County, about his frustration with the Governor of Isiolo County. He has issued many invitations, but none of them have been honoured. We are elected as leaders to sit down and listen to one another. At times, the issues that cause us to ... view
• 15 Oct 2024 in Senate: that a governor who has been elected by the electorate of Isiolo and who had promised to deliver cannot even sit down with the Senator. This is the only way to ensure that we deliver services to our people through a collaborative participatory approach that requires the leaders to sit down together, listen to each other and come up with an amicable working solution that addresses the issue of our people. As a House, we can only be able to execute our mandate of oversight if we put instruments in place that will ensure that we do not remain toothless. ... view
• 14 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Indeed, we are invited as Senators to do justice to a matter brought before us. Even before we do so, it is our duty and responsibility, as the whole country and the whole world watches, to ensure that we do justice to matters that have come before us. It has been cited that decisions have been made and precedents have been set. However, that notwithstanding, it is also imperative that we interrogate under which condition those decisions and precedents were set. As an engineer, I know that rounding numbers to ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to also ask a question. First of all, I congratulate the Cabinet Secretary for joining our Government in the Broad-Based arrangement. Will the Cabinet Secretary tell us if he has any plan to introduce the Huduma view