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.
10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
What of the clerk who switched off the red light without warning?
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the time we terminated debate, I was on the Floor encouraging Sen. Musila who has brought this Bill to make sure that the process of releasing certificates to students must be handled hand in hand with the policy on free education. In fact, the headteachers of schools have absolutely no business holding onto any student’s certificate for the reason that the exams that give those certificates are not set by the schools, they are not marked by the schools, the certificates are not awarded by the schools, and so, in fact, the head teachers and the ...
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is correct. Since he is the promoter of the Bill and the Mover, I give him what we commonly call “the right to say no”. If he exercises that right to say no, then I will bring the amendment. But since he has gladly embraced my sound arguments on the matter, he waves the right to say no. With those result slips, then schools can help children who have finished examinations go to the job market. The upshot of this is that, the Bill must also specify very clearly that no head teacher should hold ...
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, distinguished colleagues who, when the time for voting comes, forget to think and vote. That is what I mean, and you have seen it happen.
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thought the Chair would promptly answer that the distinguished Senator for Kakamega is seeking for the simple reason that I said ‘across the Floor’. In law, we say that to specify one is to exclude others.
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, to begin with, in response to Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s point of order, the maxim in law is that ‘to specify one is to exclude others.’ Therefore, when I said ‘in front of me,’ I excluded 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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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, before I do that---
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10 Nov 2015 in Senate:
The boss is driving me to behave like a machine. The instrument that the distinguished Senator for Nyeri is looking at is a machine used for voting and not a voting machine. That is the difference. A voting machine is an animate object and the machine is an inanimate object. Thank you for the order you have given me. But if anybody cared to read widely, like yours truly has done---
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