Samuel Losuron Poghisio is a Kenyan politician serving as the incumbent Majority Leader of the Kenyan Senate. He belongs to the

Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a Kenyan political party that ruled for nearly 40 years after Kenya's independence from British colonial rule in 1963 until its electoral loss in 2002. It was known as Kenya African Union (KAU) from ...

- KANU and was previously a member of the

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- URP and the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya and was elected to represent the Kacheliba Constituency in the

National Assembly of Kenya The National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya is one of the two Houses of the Parliament of Kenya. Between 1966 and 2013, it served as a unicameral house. In 2013 ( 11th Parliament), it became the lower house when the Senate was reestablis ...

since the

2007 Kenyan parliamentary election General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. Voters elected the President, and members of the National Assembly. They coincided with the 2007 Kenyan local elections. Incumbent Mwai Kibaki, running on a Party of National Unity (P ...

. He was first elected to the parliament in 1988, and also in 1997 and 2002. Until 2007 elections he represented the KANU party. His Kacheliba Constituency parliamentary seat was taken over by

Mark Lomunokol Mark Lomunokol is a Kenyan politician who is currently a member of the National Assembly for Kacheliba Constituency. He is a member of the United Democratic Alliance . He studied at Mount Kenya University, and prior to entering into parliament in ...

in the 2013 elections having opted to vie for the Senatorial seat unsuccessfully. He is currently serving as the

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for

West Pokot County West Pokot County is a county of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kapenguria. The county covers an area of approximately 9,169.4 square kilometers and stretches a distance of 132 kilometers from North to South. West Pokot County is border ...

as from 2017 - 2022

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Living people Orange Democratic Movement politicians Kenya African National Union politicians Members of the National Assembly (Kenya) 1958 births {{Kenya-politician-stub