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Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, three minutes are too few. I have listened with a lot of interest to the Statement from the Senate Majority Leader who leads Government troops in this House. The investigative agencies that are feeding---. (Sen. Wetangula Spoke off Record) Are Government agencies. We on this...

Sen. Wetangulainterdependently engage and co-exist with each other. When Parliament summons you, it is the people of Kenya that have called you to give an explanation.Madam Temporary Speaker, part of the reasons why Kenyans are also asking very difficult questions about this whole exercise, is that one of the companies...

Kindly, make the comments very brief because we are taking too much time on Statements. We need to move forward. Sen. (Dr.) Milgo

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the distinguished Senator for Kiambu and the Petition he has brought. Under the Constitution, any public acquisition of property must be followed by prompt and adequate compensation. What is happening in this country today is the opposite. People’s property is taken and you...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Sen. Kihika of Nakuru County is so right. Four years ago, the Governor of Uasin Gishu County rounded up children in Eldoret and dumped them at Alupe Leprosy Hospital in Busia County. On the eve of elections, the same governor rounded up...

Sen. Wetangula Very well. Maybe, we have two other contributors before I make my determination. Kindly, the House will be interested in a resolution of the current issue. I will be interested to get the mood of the House in terms of how we resolve this matter. Let us give...

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Sen. WetangulaOne minute to conclude. (Laughter) (Applause) February 27, 2019 SENATE DEBATES 73 Sen. Wetangulaquestioning things that are in budgets that we are part of, but did not play our role very well.I have quite a bit but we will be looking and exercising oversight role at the execution and...

February 27, 2019 SENATE DEBATES 76 Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to second.

Sen. Wetangula Hon. Senators, it is now 9.31 p.m., time to adjourn the business of the Senate. The Senate, therefore, stands adjourned to tomorrow, Thursday, 28th February, 2019 at 2.30 p.m. The Senate rose at 9.31 p.m.

Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, would you like to be informed by Sen. Wetangula?

Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, and as long as I get my minutes.

Yes, you will get your time. Sen. Wetangula, proceed. Sen. Wetangula Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to inform the distinguished professor and my good friend that, in fact, as the referendum talk picks up, this House has a singular and unique opportunity to take what other jurisdictions like Nigeria...

In fact, thank you for that information. I was going to come to that level but when you look at the history of revenue generation, it has risen from Kshs1 trillion to Kshs1.7 trillion and Kshs2.7 trillion respectively. However, when you look at the allocation to counties, it is on...

Finally, we cannot wish away the issue of corruption. It is here with us; it is rampant, on the increase and we can no longer pretend about it. Either we wake up and do the right thing or sink. I have seen countries like South Sudan, where, unfortunately, we now...

I will give you two minutes to wind up.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We have gone beyond the level where sooner or later, we will collapse, even with the best flowery language that we are being told; that it is manageable. When you get to a situation where the borrowing escalates to higher levels, the level of...

Thank you, Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri. It is always a pleasure to listen to you contributing to the debates in this House, just like every other Senator. There being no further interest in this Motion, I now call upon the Mover to reply.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me thank the Members for the very good contributions and support they have given to this Budget Policy Statement (BPS) Report. Let me also thank the team from the Speaker’s Office and the Clerk’s Office who were with us during the preparation of...

Orders say our Committee must deal with the budget for the Constitutional Commissions and independent offices.We are also supposed to consider matters concerning the national budget, including public finance and monetary policies and public debts, planning and developments policy. Our job is not only confined to allocations to counties.That is...

Thank you for the support. I beg to move.

Well done, Chairperson.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order No.61 (3) , I request that you defer the putting of the question to a later date.

Thank you, Chairperson. Colleagues, as I had said earlier, I am grateful to all of you for the great sacrifice you have done on behalf of our people and for our country. I take a lot of pride in having been your Chair this afternoon. The debate has also been...

Hon. Senators, it is now 9.31 p.m., time to adjourn the business of the Senate. The Senate, therefore, stands adjourned to tomorrow, Thursday, 28th February, 2019 at 2.30 p.m. The Senate rose at 9.31 p.m. February 27, 2019 SENATE DEBATES 96

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to request for a Statement on the Implementation of the Digital Literacy Programme (DLP) , commonly called the Computer Programme. February 26, 2019 SENATE DEBATES 15 Sen. WetangulaPursuant to Standing Order No. 48(1), I rise to seek a Statement from the...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a senior in the House, I join you in welcoming the delegation from Elgeyo-Marakwet County Assembly. Elgeyo-Marakwet are our neighbours on the Trans-Nzoia side and are friends of all of us. I would like to encourage the MCAs and the staff to engage fully...

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Sen. WetangulaLastly, the Committee must also tell us how much this process will cost, who budgeted for it, who approved the budget, who recruited the supplier of the service and where they are going to apply this service to Kenyans because Huduma Centres, as they are now describing them, are...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also want to add my voice here to the so-called National Integrated Identity Management System (NIIMS) which we do not know what it really is for. This thing just came from nowhere, nobody knew about it. We are just being told that it is...

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Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a matter of fact, we are not discussing the fertile imaginations of the Senator for Bungoma; we are discussing an actual document from the Senator for Kericho. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you allow this kind of behaviour to thrive, every time someone does a...

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Sen. Wetangulatomorrow or next week and I do not think that they are defaulters. They are just people who have gone through some pecuniary embarrassment which could be due to the way the country is. They are our children and we should actually be sympathising with them. You cannot be...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I had not finished when Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko raised that issue. However, I am happy that senior counsels; Sen. Orengo and Sen. Wetangula have done justice in responding to that. Secondly, my Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights will see what to do....

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Sen. Wetangula Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the amendments. Communication was not done by the Chairperson that there is another extra bundle of document – about 600 pages long – in the Journals Office that explains how the Inter-Ministerial Committee is being put back into this recommendation. Madam...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank the Vice Chairperson of the Committee for that information. In conclusion, I support the amendment, the main report and the recommendations that this Committee has brought before us. I urge the House that we need to belabor the point because the maize farmers out there...

representative of those cartels. I, therefore, stand with the maize farmers in their misery and plight. I encourage this House to expeditiously deal with these amendments so that we can go back to the main report and return a verdict to the people of Kenya.

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This Motion is a product of a historical process. For the first time in the history of Parliament in this country, and rightly so, you as our Speaker attended one of the sessions of this process in Eldoret. You captured the mood of...

Sen. Wetangula I thought I saw the Chair of the Committee who is Sen. (Eng.) Maina. Now that he is not here, maybe the Vice Chair or any Member of the Committee with information can say something.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at the Order Paper for today, after having been amended by the Senate Business Committee (SBC) , you will see that we have two very important legislations. The first one is on energy and the other one is on petroleum. These are...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. When Sen. Wetangula rose to ask the question, he was very specific; and I listened to him. He asked two questions; one, is the report ready; and, two, when will that report be tabled in the House for adoption? When the Senator from...

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Sen. Wetangula I note that when this matter was last on the Floor, Sen. Kihika had a reminder of 13 minutes. I note that she is not here and, therefore, it is open for debate. (Loud consultations) We will have the last one from

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for this chance. I will begin on a very interesting note where the Senator who has spoken before me has urged us--- When contributing to Bills, the normal tradition is to share your thoughts on what

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I congratulate Sen. Khaniri for bringing this Statement. Probably, this should have been our first business yesterday. Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations must be condemned in the strongest terms possible. I laud the security agencies particularly the General Service Unit (GSU)...

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Sen. Wetangula Happy new year to you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and all colleagues in the House and welcome back. February 12, 2019 SENATE DEBATES 7 Sen. WetangulaMr. Speaker, Sir, I support your statement in reflecting on what we have done previously, the challenges ahead of us and above all your...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is in our tradition - and I apologise for not flagging my card - to welcome our visitors from the two friendly countries, Zanzibar is part of Tanzania in the East African Community. We are delighted to welcome all of you....

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support Sen. Wambua‟s Petition. Pending bills are now the nightmare of every county. It is a terrible drawback on devolution. I want to correct my colleague from Isiolo County. The total amount of pending bills by county governments is a staggering...

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Sen. WetangulaMr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with you and congratulate you for making such a profound ruling that will change the landscape of the operations of the Standing Orders of this House.Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. December 6, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 33 Sen. Wetangula Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir,...

Thank you for the kind remarks. Sen. Omogeni.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also want to join my friend, Sen. Wetangula, to really applaud your ruling. Being lawyers, we know that there is the Oxygen Principle, which is in Section 3 of our Civil Procedure Rule. That is a rule that always gives discretion to our...

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Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Sen. Susan Kihika talked of carcinogenic and we know anti-carcinogenic wheelbarrows of Bungoma County. (Laughter) POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN LAKE TURKANA WIND POWER COMPANY LTD AND THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA December 5, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 7 Sen. WetangulaMr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, with the greatest respect to my distinguished colleague, the Chairman, he has missed the point. At no time did the statement question the rationale or philosophy of alternative energy. The issue raised is just about the apparent fraudulent transaction in the process; the construction...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Thank you for that observation; I ought not to have spoken from where I was sitting. However, if you are listening carefully, this is a very serious matter. We listened to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Health here. When...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for carrying our collective concerns in this matter and ordering the withdrawal of the Report. We agree with you. Secondly, I want to request the Chair that you direct that the Report that will be dealt with at 2.30p.m. tomorrow, be circulated...

Sen. WetangulaI am excited to see that we are going that direction and I am excited to see that the causation by the non-production of the Senate Committee on Health has led us this far.Thank you.(Laughter) Sen. Wetangula Very well; congratulations to everyone, including Sen. Sakaja, who aspires to be...

Sen. Wetangula[The Deputy Speaker (Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Halake) in the Chair]

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Sen. Wetangulamother who was the beneficiary died. The eldest children who were in order of reception also died. Their money is stuck. Their parents had bought shares in the National Bank of Kenya (NBK), they had land in Mavoko and Kajiado counties, land opposite the post office and son on....

Thank you, Senator. Sen. (Dr.) Agnes Zani Philomena, proceed.