Moses Masika Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Petition is very important. I had mentioned that my distinguished colleague from Kisumu, the MP, brought this Petition to the Senate on 28th August, 2018. He has been waiting for this Petition to be brought to the Floor until he started lamentations, protestations and...

Sen. Wetangula You are right, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.

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Sen. Wetangula Very well. The Senate Minority Leader (Sen. Orengo) :Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very good report because it goes a little bit beyond the requirements of Standing Order No. 51 (b) . The work of this Committee is very important to Parliament as a whole and...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the same note, this Committee should look at the issues of statutory deductions and remittance of the county personnel not only in the Senators offices but also those who work in our counties. It is an issue that should be taken very seriously. Again, we...

Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). If a person has not remitted deductions for staff working under him or her, it is a criminal offence that should be taken up by the EACC.The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) should also follow up. There is no way their staff can be paid salaries and their...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to raise the issue of the Integrated Finance Management System (IFMIS) and the need to demystify it. In the Eleventh Parliament, there were discussions that took place about IFMIS and how it is the big link through which money is taken to...

Very well. Thank you, for keeping it short.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I congratulate Sen. M. Kajwang, the Chairperson of CPAIC for bringing quite a comprehensive report. Given the role of CPAIC as the watchdog for the public purse, we needed to interrogate his report a bit further to ensure we have everything under control...

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Sen. WetangulaWith those many remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support.

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Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. (Dr.) Abdullahi cannot be so right. Institutions that offer public services have just become money mongers. If you go to Wilson Airport today, and drive in for one hour, as you leave, you pay Kshs200. If you go to Nairobi Hospital, you pay. Everywhere...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Our Chairperson, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, is out of the country. I wish to give the Statement, relating to the activities of the ad hoc Committee on the maize crisis on her behalf---

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Sen. Wetangula(Applause) (Laughter) Sen. Wetangula It is factual but let me go to the point, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and Sen. Murkomen in stating that your office should write to the IG and bring to his attention the import of Article 125 of the Constitution....

Sen. Kang’ata.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me say that the authority of this House is being tested. We need to stand up, as a Senate, and demand that the Governor for Murang’a must attend to the business or adhere to the summons of this august House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we do...

Sen. WetangulaA seen counties employing teachers and giving them letters designating them to particular schools with no provision that they may be transferred to other ECDE establishments.Clause 22 mentions that such teachers must be qualified and registered by the TSC but there is little mention of the curriculum standards of...

Thank you, Sen. Wetangula for very interesting remarks. I hope the Mover is noting some of the input. Sen. Wetangula, in your usual manner, the graphic nature of militarization phenomena is quite intriguing. I want to, perhaps, ask you to consider the recommendation you have made about transition. This is...

Sen. WetangulaI have been a magistrate before in my life and when you say: “Not exceeding Kshs500,000, of course, the ordinary interpretation is that it can be Kshs1 to Kshs500,000. However, an enthusiastic magistrate thinks that since it is Kshs500,000, it is fair to impose half of it. It still...

November 28, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 37 Sen. Wetangula This will ensure that when they are operating they know the yellow line, amber line or red line that they cannot cross. Then we can have an orderly society.Madam Temporary Speaker, I support and congratulate Sen. Khaniri for living to my expectations...

Thank you, Senator. Proceed, Sen. Wambua.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, Tuesday, 27th November, 2018:- The Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Maize Crisis. I am doing so on behalf of our Chair, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, who is out of...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Chair of the Committee, I wish to give notice of the following Motion- THAT this House adopts the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Maize Crisis.

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I suspect that the Chairperson is reading a very important Statement but he is embroiled in a drawled monologue that does not seem to communicate anything. I have been sitting there quietly straining to hear and understand what he is reading but I cannot. Can...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on a point of order.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I must confess that together with Sen. Faki, over the weekend somewhere in Turkey, we enjoyed the pomegranate fruit, also referred to as kukumanga in Swahili. Perhaps, that is why Sen. Faki was excited---.

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Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Looking at the Statement, I thought that it was vague. However, I am told that some explanations have been given which try to mitigate the Statement out of the vague status. Madam Temporary Speaker, I belong to this Committee. The issue that my...

Sen. WetangulaGodly. Whenever you have children regardless of what they may suffer from, you have a duty as a parent to be proud that you have a child. There is an Indian scholar who used to complain of having no shoes until he met someone with no legs.Madam Temporary Speaker,...

Hon. Senators, the last contributor to this Motion was Sen. Orengo, but I do not see him here; he still had 15 minutes. I will now allow Sen. Wetangula to contribute. Proceed, Sen. Wetangula. Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, our Standing Orders prohibit this House from interfering with proceedings and activities in other Parliaments, including the county November 22, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 4 Sen. Wetangulaassemblies. It is not right, in my view, for a Committee of this House, or a Member of this House,...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, my understanding of the distinguished Sen. Seneta is that she is indirectly challenging what I said. For avoidance of doubt, I want to read to the House Standing Order No.96 (5) which is so succinctly clear that we do not need to look at anything...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, listening to my distinguished tycoon friend from Nyeri, one would have thought that he was addressing a chief‟s baraza.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, English is a very difficult language. However, I have always prided in Sen. Murkomen as being reasonably schooled to understand a few things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not prosecuting an argument on any specific assembly. As the Speaker of this House, you have a...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the opportunity. Sen. Dullo is absolutely right. We would want to see the Committee on Health get to the depth of this monstrous fraud that has been committed on counties through the Ministry of Health. In the last Session of the...

Sen. Wetangulaon and concerns counties, they could think of no area of activity of the national Government which does not touch on counties.The Supreme Court even went further and said that even national security – which is a preserve of the national Government in the Constitution - also touches and...

Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will be brief. As Sen. Wetangula and other Senators have said, this Bill is for us to reclaim our position in the Constitution. There is no better place for us to reclaim this than those places where the National Assembly, if you...

on and concerns counties, they could think of no area of activity of the national Government which does not touch on counties.The Supreme Court even went further and said that even national security – which is a preserve of the national Government in the Constitution - also touches and concerns...

Hon. Senators, pursuant to our Standing Orders, the House stands adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, 22nd November, 2018, at 2.30 p.m. The House rose at 6.30 p.m. November 21, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 51

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry the Senate Majority Leader had not consulted with me on this matter. I am at a loss as to what he is prosecuting. If this is a Bill from the National Assembly, when it is referred to this House via a message,...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. Now that the Senate Majority Leader has explained this process, it is a little clear. Let me caution the House November 20, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 5 Sen. Wetangulathat when we go to the Committee of the Whole, we must very...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, can they be circulated to us those amendments?

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is normally the amendments plus the original Bill.

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important Bill in correcting previous problems but also clearing the way for better management of public affairs in the future. In the last Parliament, Sen. Fatuma Dullo, Sen. Murkomen, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and other Senators who were here...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must have this. The Committee has recommended that Clause 7 be deleted because it does not make much sense to PPPs. On Clause 8 of the Bill, the Committee will be recommending – my Chairman may have said this because the House was very...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, those disruptions in such an important Bill are not helpful. If you look at the history of our country, almost all filthy rich people in this country have been public servants; sitting in public offices doing personal work. Every time there is an agreement between...

Sen. Wetangula(Applause) (Laughter) November 14, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 10 Sen. Wetangula something.Mr. Speaker, Sir, we challenge the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) that the gusto and energy that he is pursuing the corrupt in economic terms, must be the same gusto and energy he should pursue the morally corrupt. We...

Sen. Wetangula It is about Kshs12 billion.

Sen. Wetangula Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I congratulate the Senator of West Pokot for bringing the Bill. When this Constitution 2010 was being framed, outdoor advertisement was under the Fourth Schedule, placed under Counties. It does appear that as we framed...