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Ethuro played an active role in the Amani Forum — a Great Lakes regional parliamentary peace initiative that mobilised MPs and involved them in peace forums following the 2007 post-election violence and stalemate that came about from the presidential election result, which was disputed by ODM. As the
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stepped down in his favour. Ethuro won the elections for
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Parliament as the Member for Turkana Central in the 1997 General Election, and has been re-elected three times, consecutively. He served as the Assistant Minister for Planning and National Development from 1998 to 2002 under President Moi's government, an appointment that
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In 2012, Ethuro and three other members of parliament from
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who had lost the
Bungoma county gubernatorial race (and was until then the incumbent governor) was elected speaker of the Senate. Lusaka received 42 to NASA candidate Farah Maalim 25 votes, while Ethuro received only two votes. This effectively put an end to Ethuro's term as senate speaker.
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Turkana Central counterpart David Ekwe Ethuro were defective. Through lawyers Katwa Kigen and Jotham Arwa, the legislators claimed that the charges raised constitutional issues and asked the magistrate to suspend the plea and refer the matter to the High Court for interpretation.
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The two MPs were released on a cash bail awaiting a ruling on whether to refer the matter to the High Court. The court later dismissed the incitement case against the two
Members of Parliament. Chief magistrate Waweru Kiarie ruled that the charges preferred against
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chairman of the forum, and with the facilitation of
Parliament, he convened an urgent meeting of MPs and dispatched various teams to the grassroots to preach peace, an initiative that contributed to calming down the political temperatures at the time.
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becoming the second set of leaders to be put in the dock over the
Baragoi killings. They appeared before chief magistrate Waweru Kiarie but did not plead to the charge, claiming it was a violation of their rights and an abuse of the judicial system.
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