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.
5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Please sit down, Sen. Murkomen. We cannot be both on our feet.
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We oppose this procedural Motion by the distinguished Senator for Nandi County. It is in perpetuation of a mischief---
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we oppose this procedural Motion. We want to go on record very briefly that this is a fraudulent attempt to truncate debate. The country is watching this House very keenly not on how you are going to vote but on what you are going to say in furtherance of helping the country remain at peace with itself. Mr. Speaker, Sir, those of us who have come here armed with a vote and nothing else are the enemies of this country. We want the country to hear, understand and appreciate why there has been the necessity to bring ...
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
There is no Motion now.
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the House to reject this Bill. I want to urge Senators to vote against this Bill if we want to maintain the billing of this House as the “Upper House”, the House of revision and as the House of reference. Looking at this Bill and the report that has been placed before us, I feel a little embarrassed that even after the National Assembly had passed a provision in the law that is clearly unconstitutional, and vesting the authority to approve the process of delimitation of boundaries in themselves when the Constitution is ...
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, at no point did I mention Sen. Sang in relation to a python coiling around anybody. The only issue I said about my good young friend Sen. Sang is that listening to him; I reached a conclusion that he is headed in the wrong direction. That is my opinion. You cannot take that away from me.
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the only difficulty is that in the rules of debate, normally, you agree or disagree with your colleagues, but I take your cue. I mean nothing ill about Sen. Sang; he is a young man with a lot of promise.
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not look at any things, I only debate issues. In the rules of debate in this House we learn the hard way. If one develops a short fuse, he or she will have a lot of difficulty listening to debate in this House. Senators should read the nature of great debates by Winston Churchil, Tom Mboya and Martin Shikuku and others. If you come here to be praised, you are in the wrong place. This is a House of politics and politics sometimes can be rough, and it will continue to be rough. The electronic ...
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5 Jan 2017 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, Section 44 that I was quoting, brought by Sen. Orengo and Sen. Kiraitu, the Senators who chaired the Committee, says:- “Subject to this Section there is established an integrated electronic electoral system that enables biometric voter registration, electronic voter identification and electronic transmission of results”. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I listened to the Deputy Speaker, who is also the Senator for Murang’a, mislead the House in every material way. Trying to amend that Section is to create confusion. Good lawyers like Sen. Orengo will tell you that when you want to create mischief in law, you use words ...
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