Speaker of the National Assembly in the 13th Parliament.
He was the Bungoma Senator (2013 - 2022; Leader of Minority in the Senate (2013 - 2017)
By virtue of his position as co-principal in NASA he was retained as Minority Leader in the 12th Parliament but later replaced by his Siaya counterpart after 19 senators who attended Nasa's Parliamentary Group meeting at Parliament Buildings in Nairobi unanimously voted to replace him with Senator James Orengo on 15th March, 2018.
12 May 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if indeed there is a meeting tomorrow where the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Health will be appearing, I beseech you to direct that the weighty issues raised by Sen. Were be addressed there. She talked of the other diseases ravaging Kenyans other than COVID-19, particularly malaria and the side effects of floods that are devastating several parts of the country. Those issues should also be placed before the Committee in order for them to be addressed by the Cabinet Secretary.
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this House does not work on the basis of encouragement.
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
This House works on the basis of rules. When the Chair gives an order, we do not need to load it with an encouragement because everybody is obligated to follow the order.
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
He is casting aspersions on---
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am just wondering aloud. I was not here during the morning sitting. Did the Speaker make a Communication or a Ruling because the two are not the same?
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
For a Communication, the Speaker is a conveyor belt, so to speak, conveying a message from elsewhere as is, where is, to the Floor. A Ruling is a reasoned process by the Speaker giving reasons both factual and legal where necessary, on any issue that comes before the Floor. We should be told whether it was a Communication or a Ruling.
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12 May 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the record, I also have a student in this Chamber. The substantive Speaker, Hon. Lusaka, was my distinguished student and he is normally very proud of it.
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5 May 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, this rigmarole from the Chairperson of the Committee, a man I respect so much, is very sad. When he was the Minister for Cooperatives, Sen. Ndwiga did a sterling job, visiting every area of this country, including Bungoma County. The CS is right that there is no hidden agenda in the disbursement because it is an open agenda. We can see it. He has deliberately taken World Bank funds to one region of the country. Yesterday, I participated in the hearing and the CS was completely unable to explain the basis for this skewed use of resources ...
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5 May 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the chairman of the Committee---
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