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.
4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
THAT, several forts namely; Olukova lwa Sitati, Olukova lwa Chetambe, Olukova lwa Kakai and Olukova lwa Wangusi, were constructed by the locals and they remain critical and revered shrines to the people of Webuye East Sub County. THAT, the affected residents of Webuye East Sub County were never consulted by way of public participation, which is a fundamental pillar and requirement under the Constitution of Kenya (201) in arriving at the decision to issue the Gazette Notice. THAT administrative processes and decisions that affect citizens’ welfare and wellbeing must strictly adhere to set constitutional and statutory provisions, including the right ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
THAT, several forts namely; Olukova lwa Sitati, Olukova lwa Chetambe, Olukova lwa Kakai and Olukova lwa Wangusi, were constructed by the locals and they remain critical and revered shrines to the people of Webuye East Sub County. THAT, the affected residents of Webuye East Sub County were never consulted by way of public participation, which is a fundamental pillar and requirement under the Constitution of Kenya (201) in arriving at the decision to issue the Gazette Notice. THAT administrative processes and decisions that affect citizens’ welfare and wellbeing must strictly adhere to set constitutional and statutory provisions, including the right ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua, Sen. Mwangi, should be listening to this. Sen. Wamatangi, can you let the Chairman listen to this important Petition. He is the Chairperson, Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. I am presenting a Petition where 30,000 residents of Webuye are at risk of being uprooted from their land because it has been gazetted unilaterally as a forest.
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua, Sen. Mwangi, should be listening to this. Sen. Wamatangi, can you let the Chairman listen to this important Petition. He is the Chairperson, Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. I am presenting a Petition where 30,000 residents of Webuye are at risk of being uprooted from their land because it has been gazetted unilaterally as a forest.
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
This Petition seeks a reversal of the gazette notice and it will come to the Committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua who has a distinction of doing a good job, except this afternoon when he was not listening. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to end by urging this House that our duty to protect counties and the people is sacrosanct and fundamental. The Government cannot wake up one morning and gazette people’s ancestral homes as a public forest without public participation, any consultation and justification. This House has a duty to protect the people of Webuye East and ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
This Petition seeks a reversal of the gazette notice and it will come to the Committee chaired by the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua who has a distinction of doing a good job, except this afternoon when he was not listening. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to end by urging this House that our duty to protect counties and the people is sacrosanct and fundamental. The Government cannot wake up one morning and gazette people’s ancestral homes as a public forest without public participation, any consultation and justification. This House has a duty to protect the people of Webuye East and ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that the distinguished Senator for Narok is not soliciting for a state of emergency. We do not need one. I support the petition that you have read on behalf of the people of Kisumu County. I enjoin in saying the following; the visitors, residents or workers who came from India and went straight to Kisumu, their conduct and effect of the spread of the disease had very severe consequences on the counties in Western Kenya. What started as a small thing was exasperated by the events of the public holiday in Kisumu and spread leading ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that the distinguished Senator for Narok is not soliciting for a state of emergency. We do not need one. I support the petition that you have read on behalf of the people of Kisumu County. I enjoin in saying the following; the visitors, residents or workers who came from India and went straight to Kisumu, their conduct and effect of the spread of the disease had very severe consequences on the counties in Western Kenya. What started as a small thing was exasperated by the events of the public holiday in Kisumu and spread leading ...
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