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 Mar 2021 in Senate:
person born in Kilimanjaro is assigned by CCM to run for an elective position in Mbeya and wins. A person born in Tanga is assigned to run for a seat in Morogoro and wins. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish the same was true here, such that Sen. Poghisio can be assigned to go and run in Kwale and on the basis of party policies he can win. I look forward to a day when Kenya and Kenyans will see themselves not through the prism of tribe, but through the patriotic knowledge that we are one country, one people and one ...
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24 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Moi and President Museveni who together pushed the East African language of Kiswahili to become the first African language to be adopted as an official language in the African Union. If you go to the African Union today, those of us who may be challenged in the proficiency of the English language will follow the proceedings of the African Union without any difficulty whatsoever because Kiswahili is ranked alongside English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Arabic as an official language of the African Union; thanks to Tanzania that protected and nurtured Kiswahili to grow to the level where it has become ...
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24 Mar 2021 in Senate:
levels of public debt, domestic debt, foreign debt, foreign dependency on their development and many others. Some of us met President Magufuli through the East African Community sectoral meetings. We do not hear about those sectoral meetings any more. The cohesion and integration of East Africa is now in danger of being derailed because of lack of regular meetings at high levels. We want to urge President Kenyatta as the new Chairperson of the East African Community to take the lead. South Sudan has been accepted as a member of the East African Community. I dare say that the solution ...
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24 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support.
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23 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have the distinct honor and privilege to introduce to you the distinguished Senator-Elect for Machakos County, Muthama Agnes Kavindu, of the Wiper Democratic Movement Party of Kenya.
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23 Mar 2021 in Senate:
The Oath of Allegiance was administered to the following Senator: Sen. Agnes Kavindu Muthama.
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23 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you and the House in congratulating the distinguished Senator for Machakos, Sen. Kavindu Muthama. Allow me to join you too in welcoming my distinguished brother and bosom friend, hon. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, with whom we have worked very closely for a long time and all the dignitaries accompanying him including Mzee Kali Nzoya who has been in the streets of Nairobi playing street politics for a long-time. He is called Kali Nzoya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I participated in the campaigns for Sen. Kavindu Muthama together with hon. Kalonzo Musyoka, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., ...
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23 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Women of Kenya, do not wait for tokens. Pull up your sleeves, face the men, and fight gallantly. There are many of us who we will stand with you, by you and move with you to make sure that you get what you deserve; not as tokens, but as of right. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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23 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, on a point of order. This is a great day for Sen. Kavindu Muthama. She has come in for the first time. The people of Machakos who elected her are watching. Her Party Leader is in the Gallery watching and we should give her a baptism of dignity. She has come to this House to join us and it is wrong for us to appear to trivialise a very important event in her life. She is now the distinguished Senator for Machakos, she has come to the Upper House, the House of record, the House of decorum ...
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23 Mar 2021 in Senate:
However, it does not seem to have, and I hope that as we go to the future, we must learn what the Constitution says. You are a lawyer. You have chaired the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights in this Senate. You know very well that there is a Member of Parliament in the Lower House who was jailed for 67 years. He is out on bail and he is back in the House. That is what our Constitution says, until you exhaust all the appellate machinery. Lastly, hon. David Murathe sitting up there is a friend ...
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