Wahome Wamatinga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 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
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: and synchronise it with the e-Citizen functions when it comes to matters that are transacted by the citizens, especially on the compensation of land issues? Land issues have been one of the main corruption challenges in this country. Can we synchronise and capture the values of those compositions made vis-a-vis having a unified approach? We should not have different values for land when they are being sold by private citizens and the Government paying exorbitant prices for the same pieces of land. Thank you. view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on the Statement that has been tabled by the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget Indeed, we passed the DoRA. We, as leaders, know that the country has been going through a very challenging situation. On the issue of disbursement of funds, there is no discussion. It must be timely as envisaged to allow the county governments to be able to plan. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the same breath, it is also the responsibility of the county governors to work in tandem ... view
• 2 Oct 2024 in Senate: We, as the leaders of this country, it is not lost to us that this country like many other countries globally has been going through a lot of challenges. This calls for leaders to sit down, see the situation as it is and adjust correspondingly. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, some counties have huge pending bills, not because they do not get their disbursement timely, but because they do not set their priorities right. It is known that once a new governor is elected, he does not give priority to pending bill as the first charge as it is supposed to ... view