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.
28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have heard of those who wail louder than the bereaved.
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said that listening to my distinguished learned junior, I appreciated that he is a good man working for difficult people. He stood up and protested but you could see when I was sitting there that he was appreciating that I had called him a good man; but if that is an irritant to him, I would withdraw both the description of him as good and the difficult people he works with.
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me now get to the issue. We laud you.
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I shall not be derailed by the exuberance of youth that is being exhibited by the young Senator for Nandi.
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to deal with a very easy issue first.
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will avoid the unnecessary polemics; I will go to the real issues. First, I want to urge you in the ruling that you have made; given the issues surrounding this matter of elections, that perhaps you should consider making reference of this matter not only to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights but the Committee on Information and Technology as well so that they can sit together. Some of the intricate issues that we are seeing being pushed forward and backwards are ICT issues. The Committee on ICT chaired by the able Senator for ...
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I take your direction. I mentioned in the morning. It is good to put these things on record so that the 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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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, if the enthusiastic Senator listened to me; I never went into the substance of the Bill. I simply said; why are we here? We are here because somebody somewhere wants to change laws relating to elections. I never mentioned an individual but of course, Chinua Achebe said, “When dry bones are mentioned, very old ladies feel very fidgety.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, we set up a Committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Meru and the distinguished Senator for Siaya, Sen. Murungi and Sen. Orengo, respectively. They did a sterling job. They brought the law here and we ...
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28 Dec 2016 in Senate:
I have not gone into any substance of the law. Those who feel fidgety run the risk of being conspirators to this process.
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