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.
21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Bill continues to say as follows in Clause 27: “27(e) is engaged in any activities which, in the opinion of the Commission, are prejudicial to peace, good order or good government in Kenya--”
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21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what does this mean? I am at a loss. What is “prejudicial to peace” that a person who is likely to be a teacher is supposed to guard against to qualify to be registered? How do we leave it to the TSC to determine what is “good order”? We have courts of law. We have the administrative arm of the Government. I think the phraseology needs to be changed.
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21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Clause 27 of the Bill concludes by saying, in paragraph (f), that the Commission shall not register a person as a teacher if such person suffers from such physical or mental infirmity.
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21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, certainly, a person who suffers from mental infirmity has no business being a teacher but there are lots of people who suffer from physical infirmity with excellent clarity of minds. With the advent of ICT, somebody can sit with his physical infirmity even in his bedroom and teach and impart knowledge. So, we should not import something that is prejudicial. In fact, our new Constitution bars discrimination on account of physical infirmity, unless you want to say that the infirmity to your---
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Procedural Motion and also place on record that the very cogent arguments placed forward by hon. Mbau, hon. Okemo and all the other colleagues are valid. But they are clearly not in the right place. What we are talking about is whether we can sit tomorrow morning or not.
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
The Government may very well bring---
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
I do not need it.
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
The Government may very well bring a different format tomorrow for us---
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even if the hon. Deputy Leader of Government Business said that, the Government can still re- arrange business as it wishes and bring it to the House. What I urge is that we can agree to sit tomorrow. If the issues being raised are not addressed, we can advocate them tomorrow. This House has the right even to reverse decisions that it makes. So, let me urge that, instead of eating into the very valuable time that we have extended; so that we do not sit until midnight, you make a ruling or put the matter ...
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20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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