He was first appointed to parliament on June 28, 1994 to represent the Ndhiwa Constituency for the National Development party.
[6] He was re-elected during the 1997 elections and appointed as Assistant Minister for education, science & technology in the year 2000.
In 2001, while he serving as assistant minister of education, science & technology, he tabled an alternative bill to what the government of Kenya had presented.
[9] On his watch Operation linda nchi (guard the nation) was launched against Al-Shabab in Somalia.
On May 11, 2009,[10] Orwa Ojode had survived a chopper crash with the then Police Commissioner Hussein Ali, RiftValley PC Hassan Noor and several journalists.