Samuel Poghisio

{{Short description|Kenyan politician}}

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| name = Samuel Losuron Poghisi

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| office = Majority Leader of the Senate

| term_start = 11 May 2020

| term_end = 8 August 2022

| office2 = Senator for West Pokot County

| term_start2 = 31 August 2017

| term_end2 = 8 August 2022

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}

| birth_place = West Pokot County, Kenya

| nationality = Kenyan

| party = KANU

| profession = Politician

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{{Cite web|title=Poghisio replaces Murkomen in Senate|url=https://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Poghisio-replaces-Murkomen-in-Senate-leadership/1064-5549038-g525x7z/index.html|website=Daily Nation|language=en|access-date=2020-05-12}}Samuel Losuron Poghisio is a Kenyan politician who served as the Majority Leader of the Kenyan Senate. He belongs to the Kenya African National Union - KANU and was previously a member of the United Republican Party - URP and the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya and was elected to represent the Kacheliba Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election.[http://www.bunge.go.ke/members.php Members Of The 10th Parliament] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616160507/http://www.bunge.go.ke/members.php |date=2008-06-16 }}. Parliament of Kenya. Accessed June 19, 2008.

He was first elected to the parliament{{Cite web|title=Sen. Poghisio Samuel Losuron {{!}} The Kenyan Parliament Website|url=http://www.parliament.go.ke/the-senate/sen-poghisio-samuel-losuron|website=www.parliament.go.ke|access-date=2020-05-12}} in 1988, and also in 1997 and 2002. Until 2007 elections he represented the KANU party.Center for Multiparty Democracy: [http://www.cmd.or.ke/images/Politics%20and%20Paliamenterians%20in%20Kenya.pdf Politics and Parliamentarians in Kenya 1944–2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028212845/http://www.cmd.or.ke/images/Politics%20and%20Paliamenterians%20in%20Kenya.pdf |date=2008-10-28 }}

His Kacheliba Constituency parliamentary seat was taken over by Mark Lomunokol in the 2013 elections having opted to vie for the Senatorial seat unsuccessfully.

He is currently serving as the Senator{{Cite news|url=http://www.parliament.go.ke/the-senate/senators/item/3870-sen-poghisio-samuel-losuron|title=Parliament of Kenya - Sen. Poghisio Samuel Losuron|access-date=2018-02-08|language=en-gb}} for West Pokot County as from 2017 - 2022