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.
5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the only reason Sen. Orengo stood on a point of order is because he heard me mention his name. He did not get the point.
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even asked him to let me finish the point. If it is unkind, I withdraw it. What I said was that Sen. Orengo, Sen. Mugo and I sitting in Cabinet, approved a road from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Westlands for Kshs23 billion. The other day, I saw the President launching the same road, from City Cabanas to Westlands at Kshs63 billion. If you live in this country you saw it. It was in public domain. It is not the mistake of the President. Who is costing our projects? Even during that time when the ...
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
I am sufficiently informed; it is me to allow.
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is very good information. A sum of Kshs59 billion is very far from Kshs23 billion. I picked the figure of Kshs63 billion from the media. The media must have picked it from Government documents. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to end so that other colleagues can contribute. This country is in problems. You do not solve your problems by adding more problems. We have borrowed and we want to borrow even more. We even asked the Acting Cabinet Secretary: “If you are not going to dash to the Kshs9 trillion that you are asking ...
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
if your GDP is Kshs9.8 trillion and you have borrowed Kshs9 trillion, how will the country run? We are told that 52 per cent of our revenues are paying public salaries. How are we going to pay those salaries? We have launched public projects everywhere. When I saw the President launching the road at City Cabanas, I tweeted on the eve of Mashujaa Day and said: “Mr. President, I salute you on Mashujaa Day, but encourage you that, please, as your legacy, finish all the stalled and incomplete projects in the country, instead of launching new projects.” You cannot continue ...
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
I want to finish by encouraging everybody here, whether it is Sen. Murkomen who was crying the other day here about Arror and Kimwarer dams, that even in this list of those priority projects those dams are not there.
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we never told the Cabinet Secretary that we cannot allow him to open the ceiling. We only told him that we cannot open it to Kshs9 trillion, because it will be taking us to the equality of GDP and debt. In fact, the Committee of the National Assembly had approved Kshs7.5 trillion, but when they went to the Floor, as you said, every means necessary was applied.
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5 Nov 2019 in Senate:
They quickly transformed from Saul to Paul; lightning struck them and they changed their minds. I want to encourage the Senator for Baringo whom I am very impressed has sat in the Chamber the whole afternoon.
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