Moses Masika Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute in support of this Petition by one Mr. Daniel Waturu from Laikipia County. Article 34 of the Constitution provides: “The media shall enjoy freedom and that Broadcasting and other electronic media have freedom of establishment, subject only to...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Our standing orders prohibit Members from standing on frivolous points of order or giving information and guising it as a point of order. Are you satisfied that the distinguished Senator for Laikipia was on a point of order? He was...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also join in to thank the Chairperson of the Committee on Information and Technology for presenting its quarterly report. It is clear that the committee has been active doing some positive work. Going to the future, I urge the Committee to pay some...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have been made to understand that online lending is now chalking about Kshs430 billion in a year. That is substantial sums of money. It is helping the ordinary people because they borrow in small bits and pieces of shillings, but the cumulative total...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. WetangulaOnce your stocks are burnt down, first, there is no insurance that will pay you. Secondly, there is no bank that will cancel your loan because your wares were burnt down. You must be held to account.It is important that the management of Nairobi, under Governor Kananu and Maj....

Let us listen to Sen. Wambua. (Sen. Murkomen spoke off record)

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, I enjoin you in welcoming our visitors from the Gambia, a country that is an active member of the Commonwealth and the African Union (AU) and that has enjoyed a good relationship with Kenya. Feel welcomed. I hope you will pick something...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is unacceptable for a Petition to lie and wait before a Committee for more than a year. This Petition started when our brother, Sen. Kinyua from Laikipia, was the Chairperson of the Committee. When he became politically incorrect, they purged him. Sen....

Sen Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious matter that may require a communication from your desk. This morning, a CAS appeared before a Committee and said that the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate ruled that they are eligible to appear. When we November 17,...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, you gave direction and communication because under the Constitution, CSs are first accountable to the Houses of Parliament before they are even accountable to the appointing authority. In the days of President Moi, some Ministers lost their jobs for failing to appear before Parliament. This...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. After that comic relief, we can now get back to serious business. I want to acknowledge the report of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries as presented by the distinguished Senator for Kitui. In doing so, I inform my distinguished colleague from...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. That is a very important Statement from the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations With the current litigious population that we have and the attempts by our governors to avoid being oversighted, there is a judgment from court that purports to say that...

Sen Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, for giving an opportunity to join colleagues who have contributed to this Report. First and foremost, I salute the Committee led by a distinguished colleague Senator Omogeni, and a Committee that has the highest concentration of lawyers in this House. These include Sen....

Sen Wetangula I am sure by osmosis the Bishop is now as a consummate a lawyer as Okiya Omtata is.

Sen Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not mention Poghisio. I called out the names of Sen. Omogeni himself, Bishop, Sen. Wako, Sen. Orengo, Sen. Dullo, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., and Sen. (Dr.) Irungu Kang’ata and Sen. Sakaja, my distinguished nephew. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of extra judicial killings...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to add my voice to this. I am a Member of this Committee. Sen. Wetangula said that I am the only Member of the Committee who is not a lawyer but with the experience that I have gained, I can...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you in welcoming the team from Pan African Parliament Secretariat, which I believe is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and the delegation from Kisumu County Assembly. The Pan African Parliament was set up at the time when I was the...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank the distinguished, Sen. Halake, for this Petition that she has presented on behalf of literary all political parties in Kenya, including the one led by myself. Mr Speaker, Sir, I encourage that we do not ask the Principal Secretary to come...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker Sir, I allow me to inform my distinguished nephew that probably his memory is failing him. When he was the Chairman of TNA, my distinguished nephew led a high-powered delegation from Kenya to China to go and solicit for support. Was China not a foreign country?...

Sen Wetangula Madam Deputy Speaker, I support Sen. Iman’s Statement. We have too many challenges on security in this country. Our committee on National Security Defence and Foreign Relations visited Laikipia County recently. What we saw and what we were told was harrowing. Wananchi are pointing to a nearby thicket,...

Sen. Wetangula Madam Deputy Speaker, which one?

Sen. Wetangula Madam Deputy Speaker, which Order?

Sen. Wetangula Madam Deputy Speaker, I also wish to support this Statement by the distinguished Senator for Nandi. You and I chaired the maize inquiry in this November 3, 2021 SENATE DEBATES Sen. WetangulaParliament. One of the far-reaching recommendations we made was interventions by the Government in supporting the farmer...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. How times change. When Sen. Murkomen was the Senate Majority Leader, he would never allow a question about how stadiums were. I am happy that he has now seen the light and knows that there are no stadiums. This question is very important....

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity and dispensation. My Statement was number five, but on my request, you have kindly agreed to give me an opportunity. I rise pursuant to Standing Order 48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on National...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Sen. Wetangula Madam Deputy Speaker, sorry for taking you back. Unless I missed it, I did not hear you committing my Statement to the relevant Committee. The Deputy Speaker (Sen. (Prof.) Kamar) : I did for both. I said the first two Statements are committed to the relevant committees.

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, why do you not listen to what I have to say first so that the Chairperson can respond at once.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I feel very distressed hearing what the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights has told the House this afternoon. The petition to this House was by the family members of the victims of the Ethiopian Airline air crash alleging that...

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

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, did you hear that wayward arrogance from the Chairperson? Senators do not make noise, we debate. Those of us who spoke here, did so without emotion and we simply pointed out as we must do, that the Committee has fallen short of expectation and glory....

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

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, the difficulty that my distinguished learned friend finds himself in is that the more he tries to explain, the murkier the matters become. I remember when that Petition was read here, we were here and commented on it. I think it was brought by Sen....

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I watched the fallen heroin running, she reminded me of Maria Mutola of Mozambique, Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia and Paula Radcliffe of the United Kingdom (UK) . She was stylish and energetic. October 19, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 17 Sen. WetangulaIn 2011, we lost an...