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.
24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Yes, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The Chairman of the Committee, in responding to this, should take into account the fact that this is a matter that the Committee he chairs has been grappling with. You may recall that the former President of Kenya, President Kibaki - arguably the best president this country has ever had - decreed that no public procurement should be undertaken until and unless there is a budgetary provision to cover it. Indeed, it was during his time that he set up a committee to sort out pending bills in the country. Today, without exception, almost each ...
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, could the Chairman tell this House what the Senate, as the oversight House, will do to arrest the escalation of pending bills because at every county headquarters, contractors are picketing and demanding payment for services they have rendered to the counties?
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Any individual. Not an individual.
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you could see from the body language of the Chairperson and the bemused manner in which he was making the statement that he does not believe in what he saying.
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is an observation.
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
The demeanor of an individual is an acceptable observation by any individual. In December, 2014, the distinguished Senator for Siaya raised a similar question in this House. The answer we were given is exactly the same one; work in progress, designs and so on. The consequential provisions of the Constitution and the process of implementation of the new Constitution gave a period of five years which is over. I have not in any way asked to determine the validity of the currency bearing an individual’s portrait in circulation today because the world over, such currency will be given a period ...
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
One minute, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. There was a dictator in Equatorial Guinea who every evening---
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Allow me, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.
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24 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. When the national television was switched on, a cloud comes on the television then a man called Macias Nguema descends from the clouds and announces that “God’s gift to Equatorial Guinea”. That is a personality cult. Every time you pull out a bank note from your pocket and you see a head of an individual that is the personification of personality cults and we have to stop this because that is what the Constitution says. Is the Chairman satisfied that from December 2014 when a similar answer came here, and the answer that he ...
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