Moses Masika Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also join colleagues who have supported the gallant citizen from Kisii who has petitioned this House. It is a very unfortunate situation all over the country that governors do not seem to understand or even appreciate the line between public and private...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I support the distinguished Senator for Kakamega in this Statement. The Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries is chaired by my distinguished friend Sen. Ndwiga of Embu County. I brought a Statement last year listing very comprehensively the issues we needed to know...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I support this amendment. Of course, as my colleagues have indicated that in the future when it comes to Committee Stage, we will give some ideas here and there. All of us appreciate the role that tourism and the uniqueness...

Thank you, Senator. Sen. Cherargei, proceed.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I support this amendment. Of course, as my colleagues have indicated that in the future when it comes to Committee Stage, we will give some ideas here and there. All of us appreciate the role that tourism and the uniqueness of especially...

Sitatunga among other wild animals in that region. I agree with Sen. Mwaruma that it was timely that we should have this.On this issue of 12 months, I think what should be happening on the process - my senior colleague has argued on this - is that we need to...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Senator. Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko.

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for an opportunity to also salute this Kenyan, who has sent a Petition, like many others do to this Senate. I enjoin the views that were ably put forward by Sen. Cheruiyot and the distinguished Senator for Mombasa County, Sen. Faki, that...

Sen. Wetangula Madam Temporary Speaker, I like the enthusiasm and skills of debate of Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve, but is she in order to continuously portray the President of the United Republic of Tanzania as a woman, when we know that she is not a president because she is woman, but...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, do you notice that there is an echo coming on the acoustics and it is distorting the sound and we cannot quite pick what the distinguished Chairperson is saying? Could it be corrected? I am sure we have standby technicians. Even your voice is even...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. What we are faced with now bears us out that law is indeed dynamic to the extent that every other day you encounter something new. Previously, we normally, like in the Hon. Wambora impeachment, the report is tabled, moved, seconded and debated, then...

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Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula What is your point of order? May 6, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 15 (Laughter)

Sen. Wetangula I am raising my point of order on what Sen. Wetangula has said. I will not go into the details of narrating to this House and tell a story of how the coffee they speak about is being uprooted in Kiambu and Nyeri by farmers who are desperate....

Sen. Wetangula(Loud consultations)

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. WetangulaThe Senators who come from Wajir County may have a special interest. However, the Senators for West Pokot, Kiambu, Garissa and Makueni all have a proprietary interest in the protection of the use of resources of this country. If the governor of any of our counties comes here, we...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, normally during recess, when we call special sittings, we compensate the recess by extending the time of resumption. The Senate Majority Leader is here. Could we be advised whether the special sittings we have had last week and this week will be compensated by an...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, is my Chairman of the Finance Committee in order to make very reckless insinuations? In law, we say: expressio unuis est exclusio alterius which my distinguished friend the Senator for Tharaka Nithi knows. It means to specify one is to exclude others. May 4, 2021...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. Remember the old adage that, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. When you hear the young Sen. Cherargei thundering and ranting, you know where that is coming from. This is one of the most critical Bills that have...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have been in that Chair when my distinguished and very good friend, a daughter who is married in my county and we get along very well, spoke. She said that that money will remain there and will be given to other women. She was...

Sen. Wetangula Add me a few minutes, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, a governor walks to a funeral and tells mourners: “When I finish my speech, follow me and nitamumina kitu.” In my language kumina kitu is to place something in somebody’s hands. These are not his resources but yours. A theft in Bungoma is a theft...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. WetangulaSenator, be adequately informed. April 29, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 24

Senator, be adequately informed.

Madam Speaker, maybe my memory fails me, but there was the element of most them not having sat in a bench---

No!

Madam Speaker, that was my view. As I continue, on the question of the creation of the Office of the Prime Minister, I believe it is in order to rename the office of the Majority Leader in the House to have the title of Prime Minister. Lest my time runs...

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker.

Sen. Wambua, I prefer that you press the button for an intervention because it makes my work easier. It is not on, but I will give you the opportunity.

Madam Temporary Speaker, is the distinguished Senator for Kiambu, who is also the Chairperson of the Committee on Roads and Transportation in order to mislead this House and the country, that the IEBC has no responsibility whatsoever in the creation and allocation of constituencies in this country?

Madam Temporary Speaker---

One more minute, Senator.

Madam Temporary Speaker, let me use my time. I have been interrupted.

You will be given your time. You do not need to worry about it. You only have one minute left and you will get it. (Sen. Omogeni’s microphone went off) Please give Sen. Omogeni the microphone. Sen. Omogeni, you can come to the Dispatch Box.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I regret interfering with the thought process of my distinguished nephew, who is not even listening. Yesterday, a Member raised an issue on the Floor. You directed, and rightly so, as to whether we are debating the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020 or the...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir! Is it in order for my distinguished nephew, the Senator for Nairobi City County, to cloud his argument with sectarian interests and mislead the House on what delimitation means? Delimitation of boundaries of constituencies and wards is first, vested in...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Wetangula is grossly out of order to impute improper motives as my intentions. If there is a Member in this House who sacrificed for other counties and you know it, and what counties are getting, it has been me, even in the revenue formula....

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. WetangulaOrder,

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join the distinguished Senators for Vihiga, Meru and Kericho on what they have said. I walked in with the Co-Chair of the Committee, the Senator for Nyamira County, and he was carrying a big document. (Laughter)(Laughter) April 28, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 5 Sen. WetangulaEquity...

Sen. Wetangula Okay. Sen. Cheruiyot, proceed.

Sen. Wetangula(Loud consultations) (Laughter) April 28, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 10 Sen. Wetangula What is your point of order, Sen. Sakaja? (Applause) (Applause)

Since this is a procedural Motion, it is a voice vote. (Loud consultations)

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

What is your point of order, Sen. Sakaja?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We appreciate your clarification that we now go back to the status quo where the Senate Majority Leader and the Seconder have an hour and the Chair of the Committee has 30 minutes. April 28, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 11

The reason the Chairperson of the Committee has 30 minutes is because he has led this process ably and penned a report. I also have a minority report that informs the debate. Therefore, while the Chairperson needs 30 minutes, I need 60 minutes to move the minority report so as...

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula

Sen. Wetangula(Loud consultations) April 28, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 36 Sen. Wetangula where is.’ We are telling the Committee that the conclusions they have made are grossly inconsistent with what they are telling us, as a House, to do. They could have done better. We need to pass this amendment, but...

Hon. Members, since we did not extend the ssitting, we will adjourn at 6.30 p.m. However, for the Chair of the Committee, we will add the time that we have taken. He has five minutes if we were to finish, but we spent about 20 minutes of his time, not...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Maybe it escaped my attention, but you were telling the Chair. You have not given him direction to respond to our earlier clarifications. Since you have said that he still has 20 minutes, he should respond before proceeding to other aspects. He...

That is not a point of order. You are directing as though you are the Chair. The Chair is okay with that. Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura has a point of order.

Madam Deputy Speaker, is it not in order for us to allow the candor of the Co-Chair of the Committee with regard to the real findings of his Committee in this Report? This is because Sen. Orengo said, as and when this BBI constitutional amendment Bill was with the county...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join you and the House in condoling the family of our departed colleague, Hon. Wakapee, from Juja Constituency. The late colleague was a personal friend and a very good person. He was passionate about agriculture in general, particularly coffee farming, having himself worked in...

Sen. Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This Statement is very important and this House should support it fully. There are many children who fall in the hands of criminal benefactors who come in the name of adoption, running children‟s homes and appearing like they have come to help our...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, is it in order for Sen. Halake to interrupt a very reasoned, flowing and eloquent discourse by the Senator of Kilifi when, in fact, the point she is raising has already been raised by other Speakers on this matter? We are not limiting ourselves to...

Malizia, Sen. Madzayo.

Sen. Wetangulacountry, went straight to jail because she had engaged in activities with the owners of Samsung Communication equipment and the phones, and engaged in corruption. As a President, she was hauled out of office. She is serving a 26-year jail term. There are many others; almost all former Presidents...

Sen Wetangula Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., the distinguished Senator of Makueni County on this Statement. The Emirates have arguably become the busiest transit centre in the world. No longer do people routinely fly to Europe to go to USA or other places; they...

Sen. Wetangula On a point of information, Mr. Speaker, Si.

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to inform my distinguished colleague from Kericho notwithstanding his eloquence, he is short of facts. The Emirates has opened to Kenya a transit market for our flowers, the same way Amsterdam has. All you need is to take our flowers to Emirates and...

Sen. Wetangula Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank my distinguished colleague from Kiambu for raising the issue. I would like to inform the House that the KQ embarrassed February 18, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 9 Sen. Wetangulathe Senator for Bungoma for not carrying a national identity card yet I was carrying the...