Moses Masika Wetangula

Sen. WetangulaThis Petition seeks a reversal of the gazette notice and it will come to the Committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua who has a distinction of doing a good job, except this afternoon when he was not listening.Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to end by urging this...

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Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for letting me weigh in on this. I will be very brief. This issue of punitive and extortionist taxes on our small and informal businesses is becoming a nightmare for them. If you remember, there was this turnover tax of three per cent...

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Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you. I also want to join my colleagues to support this Statement by Sen. Iman on this issue of suicides. At such a time as this, depression has become real. It is so real that two months ago, we witnessed some very disturbing incidents of suicide...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to support this Bill and thank Sen. Were for this foresight in trying to make devolution work better. The Bill is short in content, but deep in the consequence of its legislation. Today, we have a centralized, tightly controlled and almost draconian office...

Sen. Wetangula I have no doubt whatsoever that the Speaker of the Senate had no vested interests in the impeachment of that governor or any governor for that matter. However, forces elsewhere worked super efficiently to ensure that nobody could injunct the gazettement of the impeachment so that when a...

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

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, are you satisfied that that frivolous point raised by Sen. (Dr.) Langat meets the length, breath and meaning of a point of order? He just stood and pursued a misadventure that took him nowhere by way of argument. He never told us what was out...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. Once I said on this Floor that the exuberance of Sen. Murkomen sometimes reminds me of a child who is touching a toy for the first time in life.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see that Sen. Murkomen did not listen to what I said. I talked about your exuberance but you have isolated the word, child, from the sentence. This is a good Bill that can help this country. From our Independence, we always talk about...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, absolutely. When we came into the Government in 2002, we promised free universal education and we delivered. (Laughter)

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Murkomen is good at cherry-picking. When we came into office with President Mwai Kibaki, we promised and delivered universal primary education until Jubilee arrived with promises of computers, laptops and all manner of strange things that never happened. They completely distorted the education policy...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mzee Moi used to tell this country, ‘siasa mbaya, maisha mbaya’. However good this Bill may be, my distinguished nephew, if the politics of the day is not right, it will have no meaning. So, we must talk about the political environment under which this...

Sen. Wetangulacommittees do not do their work, it is not the duty of the leadership to apologise on their behalf because they are Members of this House. I am also a Member of the Committee on Finance and Budget.Sen. Khaniri of Vihiga is not a frivolous Senator. He is not...

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Sen. Wetangula(Laughter) July 21, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 25 Sen. Wetangulaalthough we need to provide a penalty for an errant county government official who levies fees from a farmer when it is said no levies should be applied to the farmer.More importantly is Clause 26. Sen. Wetangula university recognized in Kenya....

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we want to change the cycle of the Meru farmer from miraa to coffee, we should have research that brings in various varieties of coffee.Madam Temporary Speaker, those are some of the issues specific to the statute. I do not know if Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri is here. Yes, he is....

Can I give you two minutes? Sen. Wetangulait, top dress, weed, or what to do with your berries if there is frost and you do not know when to spray. This is what they should do. I am happy that you have incorporated this.As my brother from West Pokot County...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to what I think is the most important Bill, Coffee Bill, 2020 before this House. I say so because there was a time in the history of this country during early years of our Independence when...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, Vihiga County is now distinguishing itself as a small county with big problems. That is not good because we want devolution to work and devolution must work. Under Article 96 of the Constitution, the last line of defense of devolution is this House, when we...

Sen. WetangulaMadam Deputy Speaker, about two, three years ago, I was having a chat with President Thabo Mbeki, the retired president of South Africa and he told me that South Africa is importing welders, fitters and all those medium level workers for their industries from Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia...

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Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you. I listened to the Statement by the distinguished nominated Senator. It reminds us of the need to protect our society, especially innocent growing children. July 14, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 4 Sen. WetangulaYou may remember that in the last Senate, with the Senators...

Sen. Wetangula Madam Temporary Speaker, I wanted to make a comment on the first Statement by the distinguished Senator of Nandi County regarding road blocks. July 14, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 21 Sen. WetangulaThis is probably the country with the highest number of roadblocks anywhere. On one occasion, I counted 14...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. As long time practitioners of law we feel very sad when we read and hear from the Senator from Kericho that a court has been closed and nothing is being done about it. Article 48 of the Constitution is very clear that the...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, that point raised by the distinguished Senator for Kitui is very pertinent. Prior to the Statement, we debated the matter of the plight of former councillors in the last Senate. We unanimously passed a resolution that a mechanism be undertaken to look after former councillors....

Sen. Wetangula It has passed.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, the distinguished Senator said what he said when he knows that even the impeachment motions that come to this House come as motions; we impeach governors and they go home. Therefore, the effect of a Motion and the resolution of this House can neither be...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I filed this Statement on 3rd June. However, it has come late because of the recess that we had. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations regarding the recent...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join the Senator for Mombasa, Sen. Faki, invoicing the concern of poor workers who for no fault of their own find themselves abandoned, unappreciated, unpaid and suffering. We have a Ministry of Labour and Social Protection in this country whose responsibility includes the protection...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief. Yesterday, Sen. Khaniri brought a Statement on the management of the pandemic in the county. Today it is the effects of the pandemic on the country. I have no doubt that it enjoins all Senators in this House...

Sen. Wetangula From your directions yesterday, we want the leadership to table a list of Members who will reconstitute the COVID-19 intervention ad hoc Committee by Tuesday, next week, so that it can monitor this and report to the House on a regular basis the way the Committee led by...

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

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I congratulate the Senate Majority Leader because for the first time, this House has received reports from the East African Parliament. For the last eight years or so that we have been in existence, we have never received reports from the East African...

Sen. Wetangula Madam Temporary Speaker, this Statement could not have come at a better time. I want to thank the Senator for Vihiga, Sen. Khaniri---

Sen. Wetangula Madam Temporary Speaker, we have now had this pandemic for about one-and-a-half years. It has ravaged the country. It has affected lifestyles. It has killed people and it continues weighing heavily on the national economy and behavioral activities of Kenyans. When COVID-19 hit this country, the Government set...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is it in order for the distinguished Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet to raise such a frivolous point of order when at the time he served here with distinction as the Senate Majority Leader, yet towards the end of his term, he...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am also very concerned. The care that the distinguished Senator of Elgeyo Marakwet is telling is not the care that the Chair of the Committee is exhibiting on the Floor. We have a Report of the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Protection coming...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to give my views on the Report of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. Nakuru Town was my first workstation after Law School when I was posted there as a magistrate which was then described as District Magistrate II....