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.
26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am quite sure he told me that he was going to Poland and I am told he was not even available to Chair the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC).
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
He is gone for a week.
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, under the doctrine of social contract, the cardinal responsibility of the Government is to protect the lives and properties of its citizens. I can feel the pain the distinguished Senator for Nandi is feeling. Children disappeared from a village and two were found dead. The presumption is that the three may also be dead. We cannot be told that information is being sought when the Government has agencies and agents everywhere in the country; starting from the village elders, the assistant chiefs, chiefs and everybody else, not to mention the police. This is a matter where this ...
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said no to such thing. I said that we should not abuse nomination by ignoring a woman in El Molo or another in the fringes of Turkana County in favour of women who are able to hobnob in hotels with the---
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. Since I had only spoken for just three minutes before we adjourned, I would like to start by affirming my absolute commitment to affirmative action. I would also like to affirm my commitment as a leader in the House, a party and a presidential candidate to the cause of our women who have been disadvantaged in many respects and who have been disenfranchised in many electoral processes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we go to elections, the distinguished Senator for Tharaka- Nithi County vies in the village where he was born and grew up; a place ...
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, if my colleagues did not jump on points of order, I would have finished my point. I was talking of the manner in which the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government has been acting in serious contradictions of our expectations. When I talked about Mr. Kofi Olomide, in fact, Sen. Hassan literally took words out of my mouth. The distinguished Senator for Tharaka-Nithi is a professor of law. He knows that in all cases of grievous assault like what we saw, the complainant is not an individual. It is the State. If you commit ...
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, the distinguished Senator was in the “No” camp and they were running around with Hon. William Ruto with red cards. The only point they were talking about was homosexuality which was fraudulent and false because it was not in the Constitution. They never talked about the issue that I am talking about. In any case, only fools have got minds that Lenin said are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. However, if you are not a fool, you have the right to change your mind any time. Besides, when we went to the referendum, there ...
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not even need to respond, but the distinguished Senator knows that if he goes to his county and says this Government is not corrupt, he will be shown the door. I have talked to him and he knows what we have talked.
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26 Jul 2016 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to rush so that I give room to my colleagues. I was dealing with Clause 5 where 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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