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:
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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5 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Listening to you reading the Petition by Mr. Taratisio Kawe sends a chill down my spine. Mr. Taratisio could be a retired policeman who is probably suffering from nostalgia of the bad old days because it is a terrible proposal to claw back on the Bill of Rights. How our clerks even processed this as a Petition fit to come to this House defeats logic. The man wants detention without trial, denial of bail and he wants us to go back to the bad old days when people used to be arrested and the ...
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5 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second.
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5 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second.
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, first, I am a Member of the Committee where Sen. Outa is the Vice Chairperson and acting Chairperson. What Sen. Olekina say is not doable because you can only set up a select Committee by Motion. There is no Motion before us. Our Committee has summoned the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government. He will appear before the Committee on the 18th on other matters. We can direct our clerk to expand the agenda of the day and give priority to this matter so that we can deal with it. Within 10 days ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, first, I am a Member of the Committee where Sen. Outa is the Vice Chairperson and acting Chairperson. What Sen. Olekina say is not doable because you can only set up a select Committee by Motion. There is no Motion before us. Our Committee has summoned the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government. He will appear before the Committee on the 18th on other matters. We can direct our clerk to expand the agenda of the day and give priority to this matter so that we can deal with it. Within 10 days ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a Petition by the residents of Webuye East Sub County on the gazettement of Chetambe (Webuye) Hills Forest vide Legal Notice No.106 proposing a declaration of public forest at Chetambe (Webuye) Hills dated 25th June 2021. Let me start by thanking you for allowing a delegation from Webuye that is in the Speaker’s Gallery, composed of two Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) and elders of the community that is affected by the Act that has led to this Petition. We, the undersigned, on behalf of the residents of Webuye East Sub County, ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a Petition by the residents of Webuye East Sub County on the gazettement of Chetambe (Webuye) Hills Forest vide Legal Notice No.106 proposing a declaration of public forest at Chetambe (Webuye) Hills dated 25th June 2021. Let me start by thanking you for allowing a delegation from Webuye that is in the Speaker’s Gallery, composed of two Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) and elders of the community that is affected by the Act that has led to this Petition. We, the undersigned, on behalf of the residents of Webuye East Sub County, ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
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