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.
6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
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6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
you go to Kisumu, there are no beds; you go to Kakamega there are no beds; you go to Eldoret, there are no beds. When you go everywhere, people are sick, people are dying. We want a Marshall Plan from the National Government on how to tackle this pandemic, how to tell people how to avoid infections. As we go to elections, we want the political class of this country to understand and appreciate that even as we look for public offices, we owe our duty to our country not to endanger the population by recklessly engaging in rallies and ...
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6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I congratulate Sen. Khaniri for bringing this Statement.
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6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is it in order for the distinguished Senator for Elgeyo-Marakwet to raise such a frivolous point of order when at the time he served here with distinction as the Senate Majority Leader, yet towards the end of his term, he spent all his time and energy criticizing the Government and the President that he wants to purport to defend now?
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am also very concerned. The care that the distinguished Senator of Elgeyo Marakwet is telling is not the care that the Chair of the Committee is exhibiting on the Floor. We have a Report of the Senate Committee on Labour and Social Protection coming out of a Petition by a concerned citizen of Nakuru that children were rounded up and dumped in a forest, full of wildlife beyond Eldama Ravine and that some children to date have not been accounted for. It is not proper regardless of the recommendation that we have on the Floor for ...
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to give my views on the Report of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. Nakuru Town was my first workstation after Law School when I was posted there as a magistrate which was then described as District Magistrate II. At that time, Nakuru was the hotbed of the politics of Kenya. Careers were build and destroyed in Nakuru in no time. In fact, the Late Kariuki Chotara used to say, “Serikali ya Nairobi ni ingine na
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
That was Nakuru for you. At that time, Nakuru was a very beautiful and clean town. We used to be taught in primary school that Nakuru had the cleanest railway station in East Africa, those days when we were learning geography and the history of the railways. Nakuru County also has a history of big farmers. We used to be told the story of Delamere mounting his horse in Naivasha and riding it until it collapsed of thirst next to Lake in Nakuru where he set the boundary of his land. That is Nakuru for you. Those days, there was ...
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you go around the world, you will find towns much smaller than Nakuru that have city status. If you go to Cambridge, Norwich, Coventry in the United Kingdom (UK), they are cities, despite being small towns. If you go to Australia, there are small towns like Bunbury in Western Australia and Canberra that are cities. It is, therefore, a question of what we really want.
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
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