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.
17 Jun 2015 in Senate:
I want to make a contribution.
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17 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I have an issue with what Sen. Sang said. My understanding is that the regulations come to the House. We either approve them as they are or if we take issues with any, we move a deletion. If we think that the originating Ministry needs to recast, then we completely annul a regulation. We can also report that we have annulled another one and tell them to recast it in another way. That is my understanding. That is how we have done in the previous engagement. When you take them back and ask that they are ...
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17 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Normally, when you make an amendment then sometimes follows consequential amendments to have the regulations or Act to make sense. That is why these two gentlemen are sitting side by side with you. It is them and the editors who will then run through the Bill and see whether by amending or annulling one regulation, it spirals to others that need to be affected and altered as well.
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17 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Chairperson, Sir, as we do so, the Senate must be convinced both in the narrative and pictorials; that these regulations and pictures make sense. I am sure that the Government has the ability to bring here real pictures other than the things that we are seeing. When you are told that tobacco use causes premature births, cancer or death and you see a diagram like this one you will not understand what this means.
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17 Jun 2015 in Senate:
We can be availed real pictures that touch the conscience of the Members, so that as they go on debating and approving, they are seeing the distortions that tobacco cause in your face, stomach and whatever. But pictures like these cannot create any impression to anybody about what smoking tobacco does.
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16 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me also enjoin the people of Mandera County in their petition to this House. Fundamentally, the avalanche of petitions coming to the Senate on matters of accountability reflects three things; one, wananchi are vigilant and are leaving nothing to chance to hold their leaders to account. Second and more important is that it appears that the institutions of governance that enforce accountability are also failing. That is why wananchi are now deciding to come to the Senate. The Auditor- General’s office, the office of Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the county assemblies who are the primary ...
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16 Jun 2015 in Senate:
On a point of order Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On a related matter, the Chair ruled that the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights had handled a Statement almost similar to this on the purported intention of the Executive to set up registration centres in USA and then turn them into polling stations for the diaspora. The Chair ruled that that Statement was to come on the first sitting of the Senate after recess. I expected that Sen. Sang would bring additional information because I am worried. As we speak, the Ambassador of Kenya in ...
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16 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is in furtherance of another Statement which he gave.
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16 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not see it on the Order Paper.
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16 Jun 2015 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am, but I do not speak for the Chairperson. Sen. Adan is the one who normally speaks for him.
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