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.
14 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, if there is anything that this House has not done well, it is in the handling of petitions. I want to suggest to you that, administratively, when you commit a petition to a committee to report back in 60 days, you do what courts do because this is a quasi-judicial sitting. In 50 days, you should set a mention date so that the Clerks-at-the-Table can put those petitions on the Order Paper for the Chairpersons of the Committees to give a commitment to the House. If they have difficulties, they can explain. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have ...
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14 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join you and the House in welcoming the students and their teachers from a very senior school in my county, Friends Bokoli High School. This school is one of the beacons of education in my county. It is a school that prides to have been the school where one of our luminaries, hon. Mukhisa Kituyi, and many others went to.
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14 Mar 2019 in Senate:
I can see another school in the public gallery. Before you say who they are, I also welcome them. I take the opportunity to encourage the students and their teachers that while in this House, this is a House of reasonable and mature people; a House of reference, revision and mature debate. As the students and their teachers come to this House, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we encourage them to learn the much they can; to see how debates in civilized parliaments are done, with decorum, dignity and respect. We wish that, in future, some of the students in the gallery ...
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14 Mar 2019 in Senate:
I want to welcome the students and their teachers. I am proud of them as their Senator, and how I wish they came here when there was serious debate in motion to see how their Senator debates.
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14 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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13 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I came in when the Senator for Wajir was talking like an Italian.
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13 Mar 2019 in Senate:
We understand him. I was with him in one of the Parliaments in the “lower” House and he carried the distinction of being the loudest Member.
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13 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, Italians talk figuratively. When an Italian is talking, his hands will be everywhere. That is exactly what the distinguished Senator was doing. If you have an Italian friend, he cannot whisper to you; he will easily have a punch on your face, because he talks with his hands all over. This is a very important Statement from the distinguished Senator for Nandi. In the counties we come from, particularly rural counties, people are dying in their hundreds from very preventable ailments. People are dying of malaria, diarrhea, dysentery and small ailments simply because of the stranglehold on ...
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13 Mar 2019 in Senate:
guarantee to KEMSA that when any county orders for drugs - because these are emergencies for the population - KEMSA is obligated to deliver with a guarantee from the national Government that the county government will pay. This will ensure that we do not have delayed deliveries. More importantly, the Committee must also investigate the Jubilee honchos who have a stranglehold and monopoly of delivery of drugs to KEMSA. These are people who have made billions of shillings, and at an appropriate time, we will name them here. They are supplying drugs at prices that nobody controls and checks. They ...
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13 Mar 2019 in Senate:
On a point of information, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to inform the distinguished Senator for Makueni County, that perhaps the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Health is the only stranger in Jerusalem.
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