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.
18 May 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I like the enthusiasm and skills of debate of Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve, but is she in order to continuously portray the President of the United Republic of Tanzania as a woman, when we know that she is not a president because she is woman, but because she has capacity, ability, with all that requires a president to be? This is how women lose this plot. Somebody is so competent, is a professor, president, scientist or astronaut, but we want to portray them as if they are where they are because they are women and have capacity, ability ...
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17 May 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, do you notice that there is an echo coming on the acoustics and it is distorting the sound and we cannot quite pick what the distinguished Chairperson is saying? Could it be corrected? I am sure we have standby technicians. Even your voice is even being echoed.
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17 May 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, do you notice that there is an echo coming on the acoustics and it is distorting the sound and we cannot quite pick what the distinguished Chairperson is saying? Could it be corrected? I am sure we have standby technicians. Even your voice is even being echoed.
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17 May 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. What we are faced with now bears us out that law is indeed dynamic to the extent that every other day you encounter something new. Previously, we normally, like in the Hon. Wambora impeachment, the report is tabled, moved, seconded and debated, then we hear the governor. We retreat into something called in-camera, discuss again then open up and vote publicly. I am persuaded by Sen. Faki and those who have spoken. Our Constitution says justice shall be dispensed without any due regard to unnecessary technicalities. Given what we have, I know that some lawyers ...
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17 May 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. What we are faced with now bears us out that law is indeed dynamic to the extent that every other day you encounter something new. Previously, we normally, like in the Hon. Wambora impeachment, the report is tabled, moved, seconded and debated, then we hear the governor. We retreat into something called in-camera, discuss again then open up and vote publicly. I am persuaded by Sen. Faki and those who have spoken. Our Constitution says justice shall be dispensed without any due regard to unnecessary technicalities. Given what we have, I know that some lawyers ...
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11 May 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I join my colleagues who have extended a heart of sympathy to Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura, who has fallen victim of the implosion in his party. Sen. Orengo has put it very well. When I was maliciously pursued to the extent where the Supreme Court directed that my name be struck off the voters’ roll and directed the IEBC to effect the order, first my case is slightly different. Nothing was gazetted, but we went to IEBC and they formed a tribunal chaired by a lawyer, Mr. Letangule, Mrs. Mahiri Zaja and Mr. ...
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11 May 2021 in Senate:
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11 May 2021 in Senate:
advised by Senate lawyers and you have quoted a Gazette Notice. I can tell you that in law, if you try to reverse your decision, you will be in serious trouble. I do not think you have made that Communication either maliciously or ignorantly because you have quoted the Gazette Notice. I advise my good friends, Sen. Cheruiyot and Sen. Murkomen who can give pro
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11 May 2021 in Senate:
services to Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura; and, my distinguished colleague, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki, a fine lawyer in his own right and who traces his roots in law partly from me; that the best you can and should do is look at the Constitution. It says that you cannot be disenfranchised until you have exhausted all the machinery and steps of appeal. I do not know if Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura has exhausted that. Secondly, is to go to court and fight ferociously. Some of us who stand for rights of others are available, if we are requested to lend a hand and ...
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11 May 2021 in Senate:
Eventually, it is a matter of application of the law. I agree with Sen. Orengo that we finally need to agree as a House, whether court orders matter or not. Sen. Cheruiyot, you avoided to mention, but it is me who said here last week that this House has benefitted immensely from court processes. I dare say that our Advisory Opinion and several forays in court is what has given dignity, standing, presence and respect to this House. Otherwise, we would have been overrun. We have enemies from every direction, but courts have been our first and last line of ...
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