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 Mar 2020 in Senate:
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12 Mar 2020 in Senate:
meters. The company called H Young that did the road from Webuye to Malaba has built a dual carriage bridge on the River Lwakhakha that passes and forms the international border between Kenya and Uganda. The bridge is opened, but totally under-utilized because the road connection that will open up a seamless flow of traffic cannot be concluded. We were informed by the consultant to the contractor and the project that the difference between finishing that road to open up traffic and generate more revenue for this country is just Kshs58 million, which the Government of Kenya cannot and would ...
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Uganda, and the Americans are financing them to develop it. The Port of Tanga is dedicated to Uganda, full with a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) that will not be exaggerated in cost, like ours and with an oil pipeline to the oil fields of Uganda. Once that is done, believe me, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi will latch on to that, and we will lose business and revenue. Our economy will go down even more just because there is one, two or three individuals entrusted with public responsibility who cannot make correct decisions. This is what we are suffering from as ...
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and meetings, you agitate for the return of the Committee on Implementation, not just for this. For example, today, if I move a Motion on locusts, we will pass it, but still see the Government telling us that the locusts are now pregnant, they will die; locusts are now old, they will die. Those are the kind of things that the Committee on Implementation will be calling the Cabinet Secretary over to explain what scientific ways they used to find out that all locusts that came to this country are now pregnant.
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If they are pregnant, are they going to give caesarean delivery or normal delivery? We need seriousness in the management of our business. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I fully support the Committee. I want to say that even for us who live along this corridor, when you have trucks lining up for 20 kilometres, they even undermine other users of the road; matatus, buses and private vehicles cannot move. Sometimes, because some drivers are impatient, they start overtaking this long queue, and once they overtake this queue on a single lane road, there is no other lane for oncoming traffic. ...
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Meru. The construction of the road is not moving and we do not understand why. If the Committee on Implementation was in place, it would follow up the resolutions of the House. Finally, I want to touch on the point that I heard the Mover of the Motion speak to; the unfavorable conditions that the local contractors are facing in unfair competition with Chinese contractors.
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Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this country has now literally become a Chinese colony. Chinese are competing for construction of even projects of less than Kshs100 million. When at one time I visited the Ministry and inquired what the thresholds are, they said that we allow them to compete for projects of Kshs1 billion plus. Even if we are talking like that, we have very serious construction companies in this county like H Young Construction Company that have undertaken mega projects. H Young constructed the road from Maai Mahiu to Lanet in Nakuru. They are now doing the road from Garsen ...
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12 Mar 2020 in Senate:
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