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.
15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that a Mr. Okiya Dindi Victor, of Nachimo Enterprises claims that he is owed US $12,500 for renovation work which he undertook for the embassy of the DRC. However, the embassy observed that Mr. Okiya had been paid in full, for his services. According to information available, Mr. Okiya signed a contract with the embassy on 9th September, 1999 to undertake renovation work at the ambassador's residence. He was to construct a security wall around the ambassador's residence and the contract was worth US $25,000. (b) The embassy confirmed ...
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have already said that Mr. Okiya sought the services of a lawyer who wrote to the DRC embassy. He has, in fact, been to my Ministry and the DRC embassy has suggested that he goes with his lawyer to talk to them. Let him go there first, and he will be welcome to come to my office, then we can see what to do for him.
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, Mr. Bifwoli also has a further amendment to Mr. Khamasi's amendment.
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I want to support the further amendment as moved by Mr. Bifwoli. Every country immortalises its great leaders. This is not an exception. We have named universities after our founding President and the second President. If you go to Hungary, you will find Carl Marx University. In South Africa, you will find institutions named after Mr. Mandela. We have the Ahmed Beloo University in Nigeria. This is just in keeping with the spirit to immortalise our great leaders. I want to support that this university be called the MMUST in recognition of Mr. Muliro's nationalistic ...
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. Is the hon. Member in order to describe a university as a national monument? A university is not a monument!
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to second this Bill. When Dr. Kibunguchy asked me to second this Bill, one of my immediate reactions was that, I have a feeling that the Bill does not go far enough in dealing with smoking and the problems that smoking causes. I say so because the statistics that we all know about smoking are frightening. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to start by congratulating hon. Sungu, who brought a Motion that triggered the chain reaction that accelerated the Ministry of Health to bring ...
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
This is a dangerous trend. I can see hon. Sungu nodding and smiling. As the engineer of the original idea on this Bill, I hope he will introduce some amendments to the Bill at the Committee Stage to make sure that we do not leave any loose ends. I want to advocate here that smoking in all public places should be outlawed completely. There is no justification in going to a hotel or a restaurant and you are shown different sitting places for smokers and non-smokers. This is because smoke from the other side circulates throughout the same room. That ...
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15 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
November 15, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3723
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14 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. I wish to second this Bill. If you recall, we debated this Bill quite extensively sometime back and did not pass it. The management, accommodation and protection of refugees is nothing new to Kenya. Indeed, we have hosted, perhaps, some of the largest numbers of refugees that one can talk of in this region. This has been due to the fact that our country has remained a reasonably stable island of peace with disturbed neighbourhoods. You recall that in the 1970s, we hosted many of our ...
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14 Nov 2006 in National Assembly:
Some of them!
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