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.
23 Feb 2016 in Senate:
here with the former Cabinet Secretary – I thank the President for removing that man from that Ministry – he exhibited extreme arrogance and total disregard for the plight of parents, students and the feeling of Kenyans. During that meeting, I could even see Sen. Karaba who is normally sympathetic with people from his side of the Government, looking very embarrassed with the manner of arrogance that Prof. Kaimenyi exhibited here and the impervious feeling, left me wondering whether he is a parent. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have raised this matter with Sen. Karaba very many times that we have ...
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23 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, there is also the question of Clause 3(b). These days, Kenyans are so obsessed with degrees. We want to have a degree. We have people who are acquiring degrees on River Road and other places. It is good to have a degree. Many of us have even more than one. However, there are Kenyans who, for some reason beyond their capacity, have not been able to acquire those degrees though they are very good. For example, if we ask churches to contribute a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes
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23 Feb 2016 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. I do not know if I heard the distinguished Senator right. Is he in order to try to justify that a student in Alliance High School is bound to do better than a student in rural schools? Some of us went through schools whose names you cannot even remember and we are what we are because we worked hard. Even a child with average marks can go to a rural school and still excel. Is the Chairman in order to subtly convolute the contents of the Bill and try to justify what ...
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23 Feb 2016 in Senate:
Yes. The purpose of an examination is to rank.
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. This is an important Bill and I thank the distinguished Senator for Makueni County for bringing it. If you look around the country, there are a lot of distortions or distorted images of outdoor advertising. There is lack of order and what one can call proper planning and very haphazard placements of advertisement. We know that outdoor advertisement is big business. In this country last year alone, outdoor advertisement raised close to KShs12.5 billion with the lions share going to Nairobi, Mombasa and the other big towns. However, even the small towns ...
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Without fear or favour.
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Like Mr. Berlusconi!
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
His love for women! The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
Also the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA).
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17 Feb 2016 in National Assembly:
She did not even handle the chairs.
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