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.
27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Murkomen is good at cherry-picking. When we came into office with President Mwai Kibaki, we promised and delivered universal primary education until Jubilee arrived with promises of computers, laptops and all manner of strange things that never happened. They completely distorted the education policy that President Kibaki had put in place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on this Floor, you do not have the benefit of having been in this Senate in the last term, but every time we talked about the unfulfilled promises of the Government, you would think Sen. Murkomen was being electrocuted. He was limping ...
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27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Now the shoe is on the other leg. He is most welcome to look at the Government differently the way he does now. He should join Kenyans of goodwill, who are not on his side, in bringing meaningful change to this country.
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27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mzee Moi used to tell this country, ‘ siasa
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27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
However good this Bill may be, my distinguished nephew, if the politics of the day is not right, it will have no meaning. So, we must talk about the political environment under which this Bill will be administered. We can pass it and have a negative Government that will never put money on innovation, does not appreciate incubation and that will want to distribute wheelbarrows instead of computers. You will never get anywhere. So, a good Government will implement this good law. My distinguished nephew, we want these developments of innovation and incubation to be homegrown and home-driven. Sometimes when ...
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27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
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27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
police those who violate patents. We need also a penalty for those who violate patented ideas from our young innovators. If we can do so, this country will move and compete. If you look at companies in countries like Korea, look at Hyundai, Samsung and all those, they were local innovations that have grown into conglomerates. Look at these fridges called LG, all these are innovations by young people in those countries. We want an equivalent of young Kenyans that would create in another ten years a Hyundai, Toyota, General Motors and all these ideas that change lives of people. ...
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27 Jul 2021 in Senate:
We want new ideas to come from a new leadership in this country that will change. Thank you.
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21 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, first, allow me to give unsolicited advice to my distinguished colleague, the Deputy Whip, that she has absolutely no business being an apologist on behalf of erring chairperson of committees. When
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21 Jul 2021 in Senate:
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21 Jul 2021 in Senate:
committees do not do their work, it is not the duty of the leadership to apologise on their behalf because they are Members of this House. I am also a Member of the Committee on Finance and Budget.
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