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.
1 Aug 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a clear case of being clever by half. Is the distinguished Senator in order to say that sub judice is French, when it is, in fact, Latin?
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1 Aug 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a clear case of being clever by half. Is the distinguished Senator in order to say that sub judice is French, when it is, in fact, Latin?
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in relation to the Petition from Kisii County---.
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, are you coming back to it?
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have listened very carefully to the Report by the Chair of the Senate Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources. Thank you for allowing us to make a comment. The Report begs several questions. What is being excised if there was no gazetted forest? We can only excise a forest that exists and that is dully gazetted as a forest. Secondly, this House will be setting a very dangerous trend in a country that is forest-deficient where our forest cover is less than 5 per cent against the United Nations (UN) recommendation of a minimum ...
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am shocked to hear that abstentions is nil yet I voted an abstention. The equipment was functioning.
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even the screen was showing one abstention.
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31 Jul 2018 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This Motion affects Northern Kenya which cuts across Turkana to Wajir, Garissa, Marsabit and to some extent, some marginal counties like Baringo, Samburu, Isiolo and so on. For a long time in this country, there has been benign neglect of children in the northern part of this country, partly contributed by the prejudice caused by colonialism when the area was rudely referred to as the Northern Frontier District (NFD). Subsequent governments treated the area as hardship and many times, civil servants have been posted to Northern Kenya as a punishment and not a duty to ...
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