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.
8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
So far, the Auditor-General is doing a good job from the reports that we see. She is climbing hills that people fear to climb. She is bringing reports that are pointing out massive loss of public resources and there ends her duty. She is a servant of Parliament. Once she audits and releases her report, the Houses of Parliament must hold the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) accountable in terms of recovery of stolen resources, and punish the thieves. Madam Temporary Speaker, we live in a country where people ...
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
When you tell people that so-and-so is not an accountable leader, they say he is a thief, but he is our thief. We must change this psyche. This is because a thief in Moyale, Bungoma or Mombasa is a thief. Mwizi hana jina lingine . A thief is an enemy of the people of Kenya and he or she must be dealt with as such. Anybody who dips his hand in the public till is an enemy of the people of Kenya.
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
When you tell people that so-and-so is not an accountable leader, they say he is a thief, but he is our thief. We must change this psyche. This is because a thief in Moyale, Bungoma or Mombasa is a thief. Mwizi hana jina lingine . A thief is an enemy of the people of Kenya and he or she must be dealt with as such. Anybody who dips his hand in the public till is an enemy of the people of Kenya.
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
As my distinguished young Senator from Kakamega said, a child from Garissa deserves what a child in Nairobi, Bomet or Machakos deserves. However, when leaders turn public resources to private resources and children are dying, while they are building palaces in Nairobi, it is a failure on our system and we must collectively carry the shame or shoulder the responsibility to correct our society.
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
As my distinguished young Senator from Kakamega said, a child from Garissa deserves what a child in Nairobi, Bomet or Machakos deserves. However, when leaders turn public resources to private resources and children are dying, while they are building palaces in Nairobi, it is a failure on our system and we must collectively carry the shame or shoulder the responsibility to correct our society.
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
On a point of information, Madam Temporary Speaker.
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
On a point of information, Madam Temporary Speaker.
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8 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to inform my distinguished colleague from Kakamega that, actually, under the Constitution and the law, there is what we call the power of citizens to arrest. In cases where the law enforcement officers fail, omit or ignore, citizens can exercise that power in the law to arrest an offender and hand him over to agencies for prosecution.
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