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.
20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, can they be circulated to us those amendments?
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is normally the amendments plus the original Bill.
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important Bill in correcting previous problems but also clearing the way for better management of public affairs in the future. In the last Parliament, Sen. Fatuma Dullo, Sen. Murkomen, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and other Senators who were here saw this House nearly hang an innocent man from Kericho. Gov. (Prof.) Chepkwony, as an enthusiastic governor, eager to get his county moving, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with some investors from Europe. An equally enthusiastic assembly in Kericho frog-matched him to the guillotine and impeached him. It is in this ...
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, can you protect me from the Senate Minority Leader and his group? A major potential lies in the future of economic development through PPPs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this country now has an unmanageable public debt because of the inability of the Houses of Parliament to regulate how the National Treasury borrows. The Word Bank, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and internal organisations that observe our debt growth are raising alarm. We need a proper management structure. A unit is created to help counties and the national Government in processing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow ...
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must have this. The Committee has recommended that Clause 7 be deleted because it does not make much sense to PPPs. On Clause 8 of the Bill, the Committee will be recommending – my Chairman may have said this because the House was very loudly consulting – that even in the counties, it will not be the county executive to source private partners and execute the transactions on their own. County assemblies must have a say. Whatever transactions they enter into must be subjected to the approval of the county assemblies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my ...
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
a transaction to benefit the Governor of Isiolo County or anybody else in Isiolo but the people of Isiolo. This is what ---
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20 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, those disruptions in such an important Bill are not helpful. If you look at the history of our country, almost all filthy rich people in this country have been public servants; sitting in public offices doing personal work. Every time there is an agreement between the Government and a foreign entity, the benefits flow to individuals. We must seal these loopholes so that counties can become focal points of growth. I am so happy about this Bill because we want to allow, and the law now allows that if Bungoma County wants to engage a German entity ...
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14 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, this matter is so critical that you have heard the distinguished Senator for Nakuru declaring her intention to commit a murder. The statistics brought by the Senator for Vihiga are chilling but they are not new. Moral decadence in our society has reached the lowest.
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14 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we went with the distinguished Senators for Isiolo and Nairobi to my county. We visited Mt. Elgon and they were shocked to learn that three or so years ago, when you were my Governor, a single teacher impregnated 11 young girls in one school. This means that this teacher was not teaching.
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