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 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was pointing out issues arising from the answer given to me. I was developing---
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not understand the unjustified agitation. I am raising issues following a Statement given by the distinguished lady, the Senator for Nakuru County. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Ms. Lilian Gogo is a Member of Parliament (MP) of Rangwe Constituency from the Luo community. Mr. Cornel Rasanga, Mr. Zachary Okoth Obado and Prof. Peter Anyang'-Nyong'o are governors from the Luo community. Hon. John Olago Aluoch is an MP from the Luo community. Hon. Shakeel Shabbir is an adopted Luo representing a Constituency that is 100 per cent Luo in Kisumu County. Mr. Mathews Owili is a Deputy Governor ...
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the altruism here is that there were more people in Uhuru Park. Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, my MP, was in Uhuru Park. Why is he not on this list? Many Members were in Uhuru Park. What I am saying is – and you are damn right – that this kind of profiling of a community in an answer coming to this honourable House exasperates the ethnic situation in the country. Remember that Kenya has now been profiled and classified by the United Nations (UN) as the most ethnically divided country in the world today. As leaders, we must ...
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I need your protection to prosecute this Statement because it is very important. In the Statement, the distinguished lady has even said that firearms were withdrawn because they were abused. Hon. Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi was licensed to possess a firearm in 1993. He has never used it even to shoot at a flying bird. It was withdrawn and all his security detail withdrawn. What transgression had he done? I will not shy away from talking about the issue that I was pursuing. Why is the Government trying to profile communities? This is what this answer is giving ...
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, yesterday, I used a very simple English word in reference to a Member and the Chair insisted on my withdrawal and apology. I protest in the strongest terms possible the outright insult, innuendo, abuse and use of language unbefitting of a Senator in the person of the distinguished Senator for Kiambu County to me and my person.
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, when I unleash some boulders on this Kiambu man, please, do not restrain me. In the Statement, the distinguished lady has said that officers were withdrawn pending investigations into circumstances under which they attended the swearing-in. When were the investigations started? Who is leading these investigations? When is the outcome of these investigations? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree that decorum is important. However, are you satisfied that the diatribe that you have heard from the distinguished Senator from Kiambu is within the Standing Orders? This House is the great equalizer. That he comes from a county with a greater population than Vihiga County does not make him a better Senator. He has no business boasting about the number of votes he got because even our colleague from Isiolo County that has less than 100,000 votes is here with one vote just as the Senator for Nairobi. I want to urge the Chair to ...
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We are patriotic and proud to be Kenyans. Is it in order for the distinguished Senator from Kiambu to make repeated derogatory references to me and my person; a person and a Senator who leads my distinguished colleagues behind me on this Floor? Is he in order to continuously protest against order and violate the same orders in the same vein?
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1 Mar 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the distinguished senator for Nakuru and Majority whip in order to mislead the House? It does not take rocket science to know who comes from where in this country. Even a Standard One child reading these names will tell you where they come from. Is she in order to insinuate that I am the one profiling yet I was simply making a very honest reference to the statement that she brought to the Floor?
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