Godfrey Osotsi

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• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: go beyond the recommendations that are presented to us as a Committee. As I explained in detail, most of these recommendations, save for the payment of the claim, have been implemented. However, the situation changes. One of the challenges we faced as a Committee is that, today, you find that recommendations have been implemented but, as you move on, you find that some of those people backtrack on some of the recommendations. That is one of the challenges that we face as a Committee. Otherwise, this is the position of the Committee. I now beg to move and request Hon. ... view
• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have listened to the views of Members, particularly Hon. Zuleikha, and I think they are genuine. I agree that some of the issues here are still work-in-progress, including payment of compensation to the workers which has not been paid to date. The management had made an undertaking to us that they were going to pay. Also, the issue of issuance of contracts which they had indicated to us that they were going to issue from March 2020, but they suspended that exercise because of COVID-19, needs to be taken up. As I said ... view
• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: comes for the review of the Standing Orders, that area needs to be looked into so that the Committee is given more powers to act even after giving the report. In the current situation, I support Hon. Odege that, maybe, the primary committee of Labour and Social Welfare may need to restart that process because of the pending issues which have not been implemented. Otherwise, I beg to reply. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I will start by thanking the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for this very positive initiative of looking at ways of enhancing revenue. This is because every year we do the budgeting process and looking at the budgets, we seem to focus too much on the expenditure side with very little interest on how to generate more revenue. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I think the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning has done a good job. The Committee is now focusing on how to generate more money so that we can spend it on our various programmes. I think this is something that Parliament should put more effort in so that we reduce the burden on Kenyans as the Chairperson has said. This is in terms of reducing the taxes and other charges. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I had an opportunity of reading this Report. I wish more is done about the various issues the Committee has raised, so as to enhance revenue. I want to comment on the issue of there being 17 pieces of legislation on matters tax. I think we need to relook at them because it is one of the reasons, we are unable to generate more revenue. So, we can see whether or not those pieces of legislation are in tandem with the global trends in matters of tax legislation. There is also the issue of harmonisation of those laws with the ... view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: This is because the Report has stated about excise duty on some of the products. You find in Tanzania, it is lower than here in Kenya and as a result, those products are expensive in Kenya but cheaper in Tanzania. So, this leads to smuggling and loss of revenue, particularly ethanol. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: This is the case because the taxation regime on ethanol in this country is so high. We have companies that produce ethanol for example, Mumias Sugar Company. They cannot break even because the tax regime is so high. Therefore, traders smuggle ethanol from Tanzania and bring it here and the Kenya Government losses revenue. The other issue is digitisation of KRA. We need to agree that computerisation of KRA has led to increase in revenue but, a lot more revenue can be generated if this digitisation is well managed. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I am aware because of my background in Information and Communications Technology that there is a lot of ICT fraud that must be looked into. It is good now that we have a law in place. We have the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act which recommends that certain systems must be declared critical systems infrastructure. Also, on the issue of human resource, on adequate staffing, we also need to look at this in KRA because if the staff are not motivated even if they are many, they will still have challenges of revenue collection. view
• 29 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I can see my time is up. I support. view