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.
7 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you can take judicial notice of the fact that the distinguished Senator for Nakuru County is hardly in this House. Therefore, probably, procedure eludes him.
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7 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was saying that I drive through Nakuru Town every week. The town actually looks clean from Kunste Hotel all the way to the Njoro turn off. That is the impression I have. I do not know if that cleanliness is limited to the highway. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have also drawn some parallel. Every other day, I see the Governor of Nairobi on the roads of Nairobi with one car in front, his car and another one behind him. When you go the counties, including my own, you will find that when the governor ...
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7 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am about to finish. I am on my last two minutes.
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7 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to have a doctrine called budget tracking. When you give money to a project, you must follow it as it is spent along the way so that, two years later, we do not say that money that was sent to Laikipia was stolen and the thief has moved out of the country and you cannot find him. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a wonderful Bill. It is a furtherance of our responsibility as protectors of devolution to send devolution down to the counties. I urge my colleagues to support it. I also urge ...
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6 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Tomorrow is a voting day.
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1 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wholeheartedly welcome the address to both Houses by President Jakaya Kikwete, who is not only a distinguished son of this region, but one of the few African Presidents who has resisted the greed and temptation to even imagine that he can go for a third term. We welcome that very much. We know how articulate and convincing President Kikwete is. In fact, I can put it on record that he is the only East African Head of State who always addresses the African Union in Kiswahili which is also an official African language, so, we will ...
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1 Oct 2015 in Senate:
I want that Clerk to give you room to give me undivided attention.
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1 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know we are on a learning curve and we do not want to either indict or even say something untoward to the Chair.
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1 Oct 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want the Chair to acknowledge that there is an omission and we are on a learning curve. In future when we have such distinguished guests, we will follow the Standing Orders. We have no intention of standing in the way or even saying that your acceptance that the distinguished President of Tanzania addresses us is in any way not right. It is absolutely welcome. In future, we would wish that we get not only involved, but consulted. You must be assured that we will never withhold such consultation or request because it enriches the House ...
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1 Oct 2015 in Senate:
You speak very good English but---
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