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Sen. (Dr.) Mungatana

Sen. Mungatana

Sen. Mungatana, MGH Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I submit myself to the Chair, and I am fine with what you have done. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to comment on the statement by the Senator for Tharaka-Nithi County, Sen. Gataya Mo Fire, to the Standing Committee on Land, Environment...

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Sen. (Dr.) Mungatana, MGH Hon. Senators, before I propose the question, I also thank the Hon. Members of this House for the very great session we have had that is coming to an end today. It has been a session of great debates in the House. As Sen. Mungatana said,...

Asante Bw. Spika wa Muda. Nashukuru Mheshimiwa Mungatana na Sen. Methu tulionao hapa. Nawashukuru wakenya kutoka pembe mballi mbali wanapo tusikiliza na kututazama. Ningependa kuwaambia wakenya ya kwamba wasingekuwepo, Seneti haingeshughulikia mambo yao. Nawarai kwamba msimu huu wa likizo, waendelee kutujuza na kuchanganua maswala ibuka katika jamii; yale mambo ambayo...

Hon. Senators, before I propose the question, I also thank the Hon. Members of this House for the very great session we have had that is coming to an end today. It has been a session of great debates in the House. As Sen. Mungatana said, we have passed several...

I want to thank all the Members, the entirety of the secretariat, led by the Clerk, for the support that has always been available to the Members of this House. I will not forget the viewers and the Kenyans in general who have, for the longest, served to give us...

Hon. Members, there being no other business on the Order Paper, the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, 10th February, 2026, at 2.30 p.m. Merry Christmas and Happy 2026. The Senate rose at 6.23 p.m. December 4, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 60

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Sen. Mungatana, MGHbefore the House to say that. We did not come to say, “Follow the matter with other legislative or adjudicative bodies”, like what the report has said. Look at that recommendation and the summary of the recommendations. We read that report. The recommendation was clear that the petitioner...

Sen. Eddy Oketch, there is a way Sen. Mungatana communicated to me and we were able to communicate. So, proceed to inform him if he has accepted to be informed.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, so that we dissuade this misinformation by the Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing, I have the report, unless the Committee Chairperson is running away from the report. Item 6.0 - Committee Recommendations states- “ (1) In accordance to the above...

Have you informed him that he is right?

Yes, he is right

Sen. Tabitha, please proceed. Let us conclude this matter. Do you want to further inform Sen. Mungatana? Are you on a point of order?

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Sen. Mungatana, MGHshe was rushed to Hola Hospital. She went there on an emergency case. Just an antivenom was required to stabilise that situation. How can a referral hospital fail to have an antivenom?An Sen. Mungatana, MGHIle ya nyoka. Dawa ya nyoka.(Laughter) Sen. Mungatana, MGH How is that? A county...

Sen. Mungatana, as a ranking member of the House of Parliament, there is a proposal that you have made as regards a possibility of a requirement to have all those city governors to be admitted and treated in hospitals within their jurisdictions. You know what to do You can take...

Sen. Mungatana, MGHWe need to rethink about this whole health thing. We need to make sure that the governor, the minister in charge, the chief officer, whenever or their family members are sick, they should be admitted to those hospitals in the counties. We should make their going outside the...

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Sen. Mungatana, your time is up. Thank you for your contribution. Now I call upon Senator Crystal Asige to contribute. Give Sen. Crystal the microphone. Thank you, Senator. Proceed.

Sen. Mungatana, MGHof all Kenyans that is being put in one place, extracted from our minerals through sale and proceeds of privatisation so that we do not have the titanium experiment repeated. We need very strong laws, so that anybody who will go there will be punished thoroughly if money...

already living in that land and now they are facing eviction because the land has already been titled to this parish.This issue is not unique to the people of Mwanda-Mgange Ward. We went to Meru with you the other day, because a Catholic Church had taken over a piece of...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move- THAT, the Senate adopts the report of the Standing Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources on a petition to the Senate by Robin Kalama and other residents of Marungu in Taita-Taveta County concerning the threatened eviction from the ancestral land by...

Chair, please proceed.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to second this Motion on the petition by Robin Kalama, who represented the residents of Marungu. Marungu is in Mwanda-Mgange Ward. It is true that the Catholic Holy Rosary Parish of Mwanda approached the people of Marungu wanting to be given...

Okay, next Order. October 29, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 28 ADOPTION OF REPORT ON PETITION ON THREATENED EVICTION OF RESIDENTS OF MARUNGU, TAITA TAVETA COUNTY

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I thank Sen. Beatrice for seconding the Motion, Sen. Mundigi, who is the Senator for Embu County, for contributing to this Motion and Sen. Mungatana for also contributing to this Motion. What happened here was a clear case of discrimination and historical injustice. The ministry...

I now want to call the Mover to reply.

Sen. Mungatana, MGH Okay, next Order.

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Sen. Chimera, would you like to speak on this Motion?

Sen. Mungatana, MGH Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on the Statement on involvement of the KDF in civil construction works. What that Statement by the Senator for Marsabit is seeking is just clarification. We all know that the mandate of the KDF...

Sen. Mungatana, MGH Sen. Gataya Mo Fire.

Sen. Mungatana, MGH Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the Floor. I wish to comment on the Statement on the deaths that occurred on the day Hon. Raila Odinga was brought to Nairobi. October 28, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 15 Sen. Mungatana, MGHThere are allegations that some of the...

Sen. Mungatana, MGH In our tradition, we say that we do not praise people who pass on, but we learn from them. He taught us that it is how you use any position. You can be a clerk in the office of the DC, but be as effective as the...

Sen. Mungatana, MGH Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to also contribute to this Motion. The people of Tana River County, myself and family join the rest of Kenyans in expressing our deepest sympathies and condolences to the family of the late Rt. Hon. Prime...