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.
27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our collective salutations, as a Committee, go to this House for the overwhelming and positive support for this Report. Each and every Member who has spoken, whether it is Sen. Halake, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Sen. Haji or the Senate Majority Leader, has spoken from their hearts. This is because they feel for the Kenyan farmer. When an issue like this happened in this country in 1965, upon passage of the Motion, Paul Ngei resigned as Minister for Agriculture. It was the first public scandal in Kenya. Upon passage of the Motion, Bill Martin was arrested ...
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
sit and draft gazette notices and release it on 13th April, saying that; ‘we give you up to 31st July’, and on 4th July, before you even get to the end of the first week of July, they renew the gazette notice and push it to 30th September. Before you even reach to August, they revise it again and say on 27th July that they are now moving it to 15th October. I am grateful to this House for ceding to the amendment. An Inter-ministerial Committee sitting sat and said that the ship that is docked in Mombasa with maize ...
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
I urge President Uhuru Kenyatta that this Report gives him an opportunity---
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir I request that you give me two more minutes to wind up.
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that this Report will give the President an opportunity. We have stood in platforms in public and lauded his statement about the fight against corruption.
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the famous movie of The Star Chamber where the good actor called Paul Newman said that there is no other case. This is the case, Mr. President. Let Kenyans see that there are people who have conspired to feed Kenyans on maize that is unfit for human consumption and walked away with billions of taxpayers’ money.
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
I have no doubt knowing that there are shadowy companies that imported the maize must have shared the money with the committees that make callous statements. Otherwise, why would anybody working for the Republic of Kenya for the 48 million Kenyans make such a foolish decision?
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
I thank this House immensely for standing together. Not a single Member has spoken against this Report. Like the Senate Minority said, upon passage of this Report, we will encourage the House to allow an extended Motion to give this Committee a life of other four or five months to superintend on the implementation of this Report. The Committee worked quietly and tirelessly and this Report speaks for itself. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
We visited a place in Kisii called Nyansiongo. We were shocked to learn that the NCPB brought beans seed labeled “Kenya Seed” and the store was full. Farmers told us that when they bought the seed, the recorded a 100 per cent germination failure. That means that it was not even seed. Then we were told in Nyamira that fertiliser supplied through the cereals board turned out to be quarry dust. What a country! How do we treat our farmers like this?
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27 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the sad case of Bungoma Cereals Board. NCPB must be dissected and bisected and disbanded. That is the only saviour for this country.
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