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 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, Tuesday, 27th November, 2018:- The Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Maize Crisis. I am doing so on behalf of our Chair, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, who is out of the country.
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Chair of the Committee, I wish to give notice of the following Motion-
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
THAT this House adopts the Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Maize Crisis.
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
On a point of order Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I suspect that the Chairperson is reading a very important Statement but he is embroiled in a drawled monologue that does not seem to communicate anything. I have been sitting there quietly straining to hear and understand what he is reading but I cannot. Can he circulate the documents for us to read it on our own?
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on a point of order.
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have the advantage of sitting very close to the Chair. I heard the Chair say, “order Sen. Moi” and in quick succession say, “order Sen. Omanga.” What appears is that the context of what they were discussing has overridden them and unlawfully found its way to the Floor and mischievously being made to appear as if the Deputy Speaker is the culprit.
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27 Nov 2018 in Senate:
I also want to thank Sen. Murkomen for chairing the meeting well and all Senators for the enormous enthusiasm that they rightly showed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, given the enormity of this matter, the interest that is it has generated and the fact that we all want to come and prosecute our county interests; I would urge the Chairperson that we probably have a smaller committee of the House. We know the challenges the Committee on Health has faced and that is not the direction to go. However, we should have a committee put together, that can analyze these documents ...
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25 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Looking at the Statement, I thought that it was vague. However, I am told that some explanations have been given which try to mitigate the Statement out of the vague status. Madam Temporary Speaker, I belong to this Committee. The issue that my Chairman should grapple with, however vague the Statement requested may be, is look at the mindboggling figures that are bandied around as money lost through corrupt transactions and unaccounted expenditure for both levels of Government. This House has a duty more than ever before to ensure that county assemblies as primary oversight ...
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25 Nov 2018 in Senate:
institutions in the counties are properly empowered to oversight the expenditure of county governments at all levels. If you look at the national Government, there is nobody over-regulating the national Government. The county governments are a Government like the national Government. Why do we allow the county government to be over-regulated with all manner of clogs, road blocks and ceilings yet they are a government? We have two Governments according to Article 6 of the Constitution, that is the national Government and the county governments. They are both independent and inter-dependent. However, we have a situation where one level of ...
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