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.
3 Mar 2016 in Senate:
It is so, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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3 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I may refer the House to the proceedings we had this morning---
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3 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This morning, this House had a Kamukunji with the Governor of Central Bank on a matter that I brought here that because of the immense interests that it generated and Members asking questions, the Chair directed that over and above, the answers we received that day, the governor be called and we spent three hours with him to interrogate a furtherance of a Statement that we had sought on the Floor. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir if I may proceed, I would want the Chairman - apart from the minutes of the summit - to ...
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3 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I visited my county hospital in Bungoma. The equipment that was delivered in furtherance of this contract was there, installed and dysfunctional. It has never worked and cannot work. The people of Bungoma County are paying for it, in a contract that they did not participate in negotiating and did not ask for. Could you the Chairman, therefore, table all these documents and tell the House why a devolved function was hijacked by the national Government without going through the constitutional requirement of the two levels of Government sitting down and signing an agreement to share ...
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3 Mar 2016 in Senate:
All of them, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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3 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.45 to present the Business of the Senate for next week; the week starting Tuesday 8th March, 2016. On Tuesday, the Rules and Business Committee (RBC) will meet to schedule business for the Senate for that week subject to further directions by the RBC, the Senate will continue with business that will not be concluded in today’s Order Paper focusing on Bills at the Committee of the Whole Stage. On Wednesday 9th March, the Senate will continue with business not conclude during Tuesday’s Sitting, including Bills that will be have ...
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2 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, listening to Sen. (Dr.) Machage reminds me of a book called “ The Imaginary Invalid” by Moliere, where doctors bite their tongues searching for difficult words to confuse people. I want to follow up the point that Sen. (Dr.) Machage has mentioned. When there was Ebola outbreak, there were active screening facilities set up at the airport. Contrary to what the Senator has asked, the screening was not limited to people coming from West Africa. It was extended to everybody because you could be a non-Brazilian but coming to Kenya through Brazil or having been in contact ...
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2 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to welcome the visitors from Tangaza University College. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the preamble of our Constitution reads as follows:- “We, the people of Kenya— ACKNOWLEDGING the supremacy of the Almighty God of all creation:” When we are visited by members of a respected church, for example, the Catholic Church visiting a House that has all manner of characters; it is gratifying because we hope and believe that the Almighty God will now descend on this House.
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2 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the term “character” is not demeaning at all. The distinguished Senator has just added a description to it, “dubious.” If you listened to me carefully, I did not use the word “dubious.” I said, “All manner of characters.” We have the good, the bad and the ugly in this House. However, the point is---
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2 Mar 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, for his comfort, he falls within the good. He is neither the bad nor the ugly.
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