Wahome Wamatinga

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• 30 Nov 2022 in Senate: have a National Irrigation Authority mandated to do irrigation and increase production. However, we see the Treasury starves it of money. Some of the money given to the county governments, if put together in regional blocs, we would be able to come up with viable solutions that can be implemented and can be of long-term solution. I think we have to relook at the devolved functions and the way they can achieve economies of scale. It will not be viable for a county to do a big dam because it is too expensive. Three or four counties putting their resources ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT, AWARE THAT the majority of highway users, most of whom are long distance travellers and some of whom are children, elderly and sick, face a myriad of challenges including traffic delays and breakdown of their vehicles that cause them to spend long hours on the road exposing them to starvation, insecurity threats and to the need for sanitary and medical facilities. FURTHER AWARE THAT setting up safe stopping points for road users at regular intervals with the necessary road-side amenities such as fuel stations, view
• 24 Nov 2022 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: parking spaces, restaurants, telephone booths, minor repair shops, medical facilities and toilets enhances total travel experience and the lack of these points make it impractical for drivers to stop as often as they would wish to resulting into driving- related fatigue, a significant contributor to accidents on the highways. COGNIZANT THAT the current road-side amenities operated and maintained by private companies, majorly oil companies, are located in urban centres while in the countryside there are inadequate numbers offering limited variety of facilities. ACKNOWLEDGING THAT the cost of such developments and the uncertainty of the returns on investment restrict the supply ... view
• 24 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support. It is common knowledge that sometimes back, we formed the National Construction Authority (NCA) which was mandated to oversight, not only the engineers, but also the contractors and regulate what they do. The purpose of having NCA was to oversight the private enterprises that engage in construction industry and ensure that they adhere to the standard. As Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has said, corruption has destroyed the construction industry. The role of NCA which was supposed to be regulating license and even the artisans has been rendered useless because quacks have ... view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Crystal Asige. We should not only stop at ensuring that health facilities are accommodative of the People with Disabilities (PWDs) but we should go a step further and start having a candid conversation on mainstreaming PWDs into the main schools. We know that PWDs are highly stereotyped in the society we live in today. This is because we do not know how to treat them right from the word go. Therefore, it will be important for us to have PWDs in the mainstream schools for our kids ... view
• 22 Nov 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I also rise to support this Motion. We know that every country is supposed to have strategic food reserves. These are supposed to meet the needs of its population whenever unforeseen circumstances such the ones witnessed in the country for a couple of months. However, we know that there was an oversight on the side of the national Government. As much as agriculture is a devolved function, the responsibility of maintaining strategic grain reserves is vested in the national Government. This was overlooked. Agriculture is a devolved function. We said, as a Senate, that we should ... view
• 22 Nov 2022 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 22 Nov 2022 in Senate: have been put in place to ensure we do not lose a lot after the harvest. If we do that, we will not only start agro processing but we will also ensure that Kenyans do not go hungry. On the issue of modifying the seeds that are put on the ground, it is in the public domain that the climate has changed a lot. Therefore, we also need to adopt technologies that go with the changing times. The introduction of those seeds will lead to better performance in our climatic conditions and that is what other people are technically calling ... view
• 22 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, very much Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am also surprised by the little knowledge that is in this House. Being an engineer, I want to say process optimization, modification, reengineering is actually undertaken to achieve more efficiency as has been raised here by Sen. Thang’wa. view