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.
24 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, why, one may ask, do people cross the border from Somalia and within three or four days, they have the national identity cards of Kenya? These are questions we are going to ask hereafter. What happened to our intelligence gathering? These are questions we shall ask, and many other things. Why should our armed forces come from their barracks to do what the police would have done? These are questions we shall ask in future. But today, we stand in absolute solidarity with the people of Kenya.
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24 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of all of us, I want, like you did, to send our unreserved and unqualified messages of condolences to all the families, friends who have lost their beloved ones and wish those who have been maimed in various degrees quick recovery, and call upon the Government that none of the injured persons should be left to foot any medical bill in the hospitals.
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24 Sep 2013 in Senate:
This should be the responsibility of the Government and the Government must stand up to meet all the bills, including where necessary, external medical attention where we have a limitation in our local capacity so that every Kenyan can feel and know that we care and we truly care about our country.
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24 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Lastly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Senate for showing responsibility, standing up as the House of dignity, as the House that has to show leadership and example and the House that has accepted to spare valuable time of this busy Senate Chamber to dedicate this afternoon to condole Kenyans and to assure Kenyans that together, we stand and, together, we shall walk.
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24 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I finish, I want to urge all Kenyans that the security is not just about our forces; we have a moral duty to be vigilant all the time, to point out suspicious characters amidst us and to help the Government and the people of this country live in peace. We have been told of those who escaped – if you heard of a terrorist who took clothes from a shop, put them on and walked out helping people as if he was a philanthropist – so they are in our midst and we must be extra ...
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24 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second.
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19 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, could you allow me to seek further clarifications?
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19 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to seek further clarification from the distinguished Senator----
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19 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, but once the Statement is requested, it is the property of the House. The House can deal with it whether the requester is there or not.
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19 Sep 2013 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, while we appreciate what the distinguished Senator for Baringo County has said, and while we also appreciate that we must continue expanding our infrastructure and that persons culpable in terms of constructions on reserves and future development land have to bear the consequences, one will invariably find that each and every of these constructions in Nairobi are approved by some authority. While the demolitions may be justified that they are on a road reserve---
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