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.
11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to make observations.
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, sometimes it does appear that that is the only way you can get quick attention from the Chair when you want to say something.
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. Chebeni from my county who has made a very fundamental Statement.
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
The manner in which some people in this country are taking away the lives of others is becoming very worrisome. You may remember that there is a friend of mine called Hosiah Killi who works for LapTrust. His daughter who was in third year in the university, and she was brutally murdered. The murder was linked to a person who was then a governor, but it just disappeared like that.
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
We have seen the grisly murder in Eldoret two days ago where a person who can only be deranged, walked with an axe and hacked a woman to death on the pretext that she had been his lover and had jilted him. We have heard of so many murders of students. It was listed in the newspapers today that close to ten students have lost their lives in unexplainable circumstances. The case of Sharon is still very fresh in our minds where a pregnant girl is bastardized and beastly murdered, including knifing the foetus in the body. All these things ...
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
At the university, during our days, I do not know if you found a certain Prof. Dondas who was a priest at St. Paul‟s Chapel. He used to spend a lot of time and energy counseling students on “dos and don‟ts” of life, as it should be. Regarding this particular problem, we blame it on the institutions for not looking after their students well. We blame it on the parents for not counseling their children and not taking care of them. Parents send their children to the university and leave them in the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard ...
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
hands of greedy men who give them money. When they are done with them, they abandon them and the girls find it very difficult to cope with their own peers.
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
We need a moral re-awakening in this country. As I come to my conclusion, I urge the institutions that are supposed to be custodians of morality - these are churches and mosques - to play their rightful role in the society. These days, churches and mosques are also just beehives of financial activities. They rarely deal with issues of morality with our children. When you go to church, the highest treatment you get is when you say you have brought them money. Nobody is talking about getting on the beaten track. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even as we laud the ...
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I enjoin the distinguished Senator for Nairobi in the statement that he has made. I recently took an Uber Taxi from the airport to ---
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11 Apr 2019 in Senate:
The young man, the driver talked to me until he shed tears. He lamented about the conditions under which they work, the paltry income that they get, the molestation and terror they get from financial institutions that finance their vehicles. What the distinguished Senator has not addressed and what the Committee Chair should deal with is; who are the local accomplices of Uber, because Uber did not just walk into Kenya. The money that is earned from Uber at the expense of these slaving drivers goes to Uber International and some local accomplices. Those are the slave drivers. This Senate ...
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