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.
22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
with unprecedented authority over the people of Kenya is bankrupt. How can a monopoly of an essential service be bankrupt? How can you explain that the KPLC whom we depend for our electricity and when you do not pay your bill, they come and disconnect your power and go away, is bankrupt? Some of us have suffered in the hands of the KPLC. In my own residence where I have been paying bills amounting to Kshs24,000, last month they gave me a bill of Kshs88,000 as if I run a factory. This is true of everybody else. Big factories like ...
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
with unprecedented authority over the people of Kenya is bankrupt. How can a monopoly of an essential service be bankrupt? How can you explain that the KPLC whom we depend for our electricity and when you do not pay your bill, they come and disconnect your power and go away, is bankrupt? Some of us have suffered in the hands of the KPLC. In my own residence where I have been paying bills amounting to Kshs24,000, last month they gave me a bill of Kshs88,000 as if I run a factory. This is true of everybody else. Big factories like ...
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, I beg to second this Motion. Once again, I urge Members, as Sen. Orengo said, this is not about parties, one’s community, one’s people or where one come’s from. This is about the people you represent in this House. It is high time that the Committee on Finance and Budget, chaired by the Senator for Kirinyaga, carried out a public inquiry on taxation in this country. We are talking of taxation in Nairobi, at the national level. We had a case from Mombasa, where Sen. Faki comes from, where the Governor levied taxes on a lorry carrying ...
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22 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, I beg to second this Motion. Once again, I urge Members, as Sen. Orengo said, this is not about parties, one’s community, one’s people or where one come’s from. This is about the people you represent in this House. It is high time that the Committee on Finance and Budget, chaired by the Senator for Kirinyaga, carried out a public inquiry on taxation in this country. We are talking of taxation in Nairobi, at the national level. We had a case from Mombasa, where Sen. Faki comes from, where the Governor levied taxes on a lorry carrying ...
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21 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the chairperson must be put under pressure. This is serious business and I want the chairperson to sit down and listen to us instead of engaging Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. The Chairperson should sit down and listen to us. This morning up to the afternoon there were more than 20 Senators here. Members spoke candidly and seriously. The distinguished Senator for Busia was very candid in his presentation and so were all the other Senators: Sen. Orengo, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Sen. Cheruiyot. Before we left, we gave the Chairperson clear direction that he was going to ...
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