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.
4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Petition is very important because when particularly a post- university institution records mass failure, it is cause for worry. The KSL has had a long history, starting from the days of Peter Jackson, Leonard Njagi, Kulundu Bitonye, PLO Lumumba and the current principal.
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
During our time, you could get one or two students being referred to sit a supplementary paper because, strictly, what is taught at the KSL is not hard stuff but etiquette. It is about how to run a law firm, how to keep accounts for your clients, how to deal with fellow lawyers in professional undertakings, how to appear before courts with decorum, how to disagree with your colleagues without being boisterous and so on and so forth. When you record mass failure in a situation such as this, it raises a lot of questions. I hope the KSL is ...
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
I remember when we were in Four Two or Three there, James Orengo here, then a student leader, led a revolt at the UoN because there was a white man at the Faculty of Art, Drawing and Design (ADD) who used to make sure that Africans did not pass examinations to become architects. That revolt revolutionized the change at the Faculty of ADD and brought in African lecturers and we started having African architects who did, and still do, a good job.
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
Members of the Committee that will be chaired by Sen. Cherargei who presented the Petition himself must not subject themselves to issues of financial audits because those are not academic. Financial audits should be done by the Auditor-General if he is too busy, then he should hire an audit firm to do it. Let them look at the academics at the KSL, why failure is recorded and why many of us, including myself, are routinely visited by students who look for fees to go and pay for supplementary examinations when they had already paid fees for original examinations. The Committee ...
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to make a very brief contribution to this Statement. Something that the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay has said has struck my mind. That the national Government or county government has given and leased away a part of the lake to a private investor is unimaginable. Does it mean that that section of the lake - 200 acres - is a no-go-zone for the locals? This is an outrage. The Government can regulate fishing in the lake, and under the law of the sea that also applies to inland mass water areas, you cannot demarcate ...
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
not limited to the Indian Ocean. It covers Lake Victoria, Lake Naivasha and all the inland water bodies including Lake Turkana. Therefore, we need to have clarity of law, regulations, and management so that fishermen are not treated like strangers in their own areas where they have lived from time in memorial.
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the distinguished Senator for Kericho whom I have so much respect for implying that village idiots can be beaten by the police at will? This is because even village idiots have rights.
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, every Member must take responsibility for the accuracy of the statement they make on this Floor. Is the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay in order to attempt, in a very cavalier way, to profile the people of former Western Province of this country by stating categorically that as you move from Kisumu City to Maseno--- As if to emphasize that Kisumu City is a city of sanity, he mentioned it three times. He went on to say that as you move towards Maseno and Luanda, the number of people with mental instability increases. This is profiling ...
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4 Jun 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if Sen. M. Kajwang’ wants to stand and remain on the HANSARD, he has to tell this House how many mental patients he has counted in Kisumu, Maseno and Luanda, as he progressively moves into Western Kenya. He must also tell us what evidence he has gathered that the people of Luanda consume
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