once again tapped him for the position of Deputy State House Comptroller. His main duties were speech and report writing. He served in the position until 1996 when he was promoted to the position of State House Comptroller upon the retirement of Abraham Kiptanui, for whom he was a deputy. He held this role for two years until, in 1998, he was demoted to a Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environmental Conservation. Political career In early 2002, Bett was approached by Raila Odinga to join him in a new political party - the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and he acquiesced. When LDP joined hands with the Mwai Kibaki-led NAK to form NARC, Bett was entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating its activities in the South Rift. In spite of the fact that South Rift had been a KANU bastion for the four decades since independence, Bett's team was able to claw back substantial ground for NARC. As the historic 2002 election votes trickled in, his input was manifest in the numerous civic seats, impressive performance by parliamentary candidates on its ticket and thousands of votes for its presidential candidate Kibaki who eventually was declared the winner. Unlike many leaders from the region, Bett's judgment carried the day. The NARC government nominated him as a member of parliament in 2003 and was subsequently elected to chair the Parliamentary Select Committee on Agriculture, Land and Natural Resources. With him at the helm, the committee sponsored many bills and motions with the Forest Act of 2005 being its most remarkable. The committee is remembered for vehemently opposing the introduction of GMOs in the country. The year 2005 saw Bett and Henry Kosgey leading the people of Rift Valley to join the rest of the country in rejecting a what they termed a 'watered-down' draft constitution in that year's referendum. In 2007, Bett contested the Buret Constituency parliamentary seat on an ODM ticket and won. He garnered 43,000 votes against his nearest competitor Paul Sang of KANU who managed got 7,000 votes. From his contributions on the floor of the House, he was able to nudge the government into putting up a pineapple processing plant in Roret and the Tiriitab-Moita-based Bureti Technical Institute, both projects are still underway. Other projects are Kapkatet Stadium that is being modernised alongside the Sotik-Cheborge-Roret-Sigowet and Litein-Kibugat roads that are being upgraded with bitumen. Following the demise of