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 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, Sir, I was consulting the “King of Meru”.
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, Sir, when the Mace is down you can walk---
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Okay, Mr. Chairperson, Sir.
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
On a point of clarification, Mr. Chairperson, Sir. I see a raft of issues here. The schedule set out here, this miscellaneous amendment looks identical to the Bill which we debated here on issues of the National Campaign Against Drugs and Alcohol Abuse (NACADA). Is this a duplex job? Most of these things I see here are in that Bill that many Members expressed desire to move a series of amendments.
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, Sir, I just need a clarification on whether we are passing a law upon a law or parallel laws that we end up doing the same things?
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, Sir, I do not know if I was clear; the Bill brought by Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki had identical provisions. This Miscellaneous amendment is on a similar Bill, now are we going to have a duplex law on the same issue?
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, the only thing we can, probably, do is proceed with this and advice Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki to sit with the Committee and see whether what he is proposing has been dealt with here, then he can pull it out.
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, Sir, it is just good that the distinguished Senator for Nyandarua has issued a disclaimer before he even moved the amendment. The reasons given are not good enough because the amendment is going to bring management of stadia under county government or to involve county governments in the management of stadia. As I speak, county governments are already rolling out huge budgets to renovate stadia and manage them. If there will be a comprehensive review of the Act, let it find things going on. As it is now, if we have no control of the stadia, how do ...
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7 Aug 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Chairperson, Sir, I want to encourage him that it does no harm to take this amendment because the review will find it in operation. It will just be the process of the dynamism of the law. The law is always on the move.
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