Wahome Wamatinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 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
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: ensure that most of the disasters caused by carelessness or mishandling of those explosive or flammable cargo are avoided. Another major cause of fires, especially in the rural settlement, is electrification. We know that we have a shortage of qualified electricians in this county, and whenever wiring is done, we find a lot of short-circuiting. In the process, we end up losing a lot of lives because of things that could be avoided. As we come up with this Bill, it would be important to ensure that we have policies in place to ensure that we maintain standards, which will ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to move that the Local Content Bill (Senate Bills No. 50 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. The Local Content Bill (Senate Bills No.50 of 2023) was published vide the Kenya Gazette Supplement No.224 on 25th November, 2023 and was introduced in the Senate in the way of the First Reading. Further on, the Bill was committed to the Committee of Energy, which I chair. Pursuant to provisions of Article 118 of the Constitution and Standing Order No.145, the Standing Committee on Energy did public participation as required. ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: introduced. The Committee observed that the current wording of Clause 7, particularly Sub-Clause (b)(2), (4) and (5) were problematic. These sub-paragraphs were encroaching on the implementation functions vested in the county governments effectively taking away the county implementation responsibility. Therefore, the committee observed that the Bill lacked a clear funding model for activities in the local content development committee given that the functions of the committee were capital intensive and the absence of specific funding mechanisms and models could hinder the effective execution of its duties. The committee further observed that the original requirements of the local content and development ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: resources, they do benefit in a way of technology transfer, so that, in future, they can be self-sustaining. We know that oil and petroleum mining has become a curse to many African countries. For us, as a country, to avoid this curse that has befallen some of the major oil producers, be it Nigeria, Ghana and the like, we must come up with measures and a framework that ensures that the local community does not only become passive partakers, but are actively involved. This is by ensuring that there is not only technology transfer, but also direct and proportionate benefit ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: It is also important to ensure that the local communities who are the owners of the lands, do not only get the compensation they require, but they get commensurate compensation that will ensure that their livelihood moving on to the future, is assured. This cannot happen unless we put an elaborate mechanism in place that is easy to interpret, adopt and implement. Further on, we also noted that most of the local communities in oil exploration countries live in abject poverty. This is attributable to two factors. One, they are deprived of their means of livelihood and we know most ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Lokichar, you will see the local communities lined up with jerricans of water, waiting for the water trucks that undertake the water trucking to provide them with water. If that was rightly conceptualized, it could have been that a water pipeline could have been installed. As you are aware, in oil extraction, the extraction companies use these pumps to pump water into the boreholes so that they can displace the oil. As they pump in the water, the oil is pumped out. This could have been at a very small additional cost to provide additional water kiosks so that the ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: standardized approach in all the counties on how the local communities will be assisted to take part in such an investment. As I conclude, it is also very important to note that there is quite a huge potential of the gas. As we seek to move into green energy, it is important to note that most of the households in Kenya use firewood, charcoal and maybe other fossil fuel-based cooking means. This has landed many households to, not only have unsafe and unhygienic cooking methods, but has also been a major cause of respiratory diseases. As has been put forward ... view