How to read Senator for Wajir County Mohamed Abass Sheikh's Hansard record
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Speaking activity (pulse)
In office: 8 Sept 2022 – present (still serving) · Senator for Wajir County Mohamed Abass Sheikh
Official term may start 8 Sept 2022; floor speeches on this site begin 18 Oct 2022.
Pulse for 2026 while in office — denser squares mean more floor contributions that day. Days outside this office tenure are blank. Chair / Temporary Speaker turns are excluded. Blank days in office may mean no floor speech, a sitting not yet published, or no sitting.
Full tenure (on this site): 2 floor contributions on 1 sitting day.
0 contributions across 0 sitting days in 2026 for Senator for Wajir County Mohamed Abass Sheikh.
Sen. Mohamed Abass Sheikh is the Senator for Wajir County. He won election to the Senate of Kenya in August 2022 as a candidate for the United Democratic Movement (UDM) party. Before becoming a senator, he built a career in agricultural administration and livestock marketing, serving as a branch manager at the Agricultural Finance Office and later as the chief executive officer of the Kenya Livestock Marketing Council. He entered elective politics in 2013 and served as the Member of Parliament for Wajir East Constituency until 2017. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resource Management from Egerton University and a Master of Business Administration in Strategic Marketing from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In the national legislature, he currently serves as the chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations.
Parliamentary history
Sept 2022 – Present: Senator for Wajir County
Floor contributions (2)
Speeches made as a Member in debate. Does not include turns as Speaker, Deputy Speaker, or Temporary Speaker while moderating the sitting.
Senate Hansard — 18 October 2022 Afternoon Sitting
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. As much as we appreciate the Statement by the hon. Senator from Kitui, I would like to inform the House of the terrible drought and famine. Those camels belong to Kenyans. …