Godfrey Osotsi

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• 18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Most importantly, is that the gazettement of this crop would trigger other processes which are very crucial and which will lead to benefits to the farmers of Kwale and the Coast region. It will trigger marketing processes, distribution, transportation, promotion and, most importantly, even value addition. We want value addition to be done right here in Kenya before they are exported. Another important thing is that this crop does well in warm humid areas with The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: temperatures of about 32 to 38 degrees Celsius. We know many of our ASAL areas are some of the areas which can benefit from this crop. Therefore, this is a very important amendment and I want to encourage the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to continually look for such kind of crops. One crop that I really vouch for is the bamboo tree which has so many benefits, but it is not classified as a crop. That is one of the drops that I would urge the Committee to consider pushing the ministry to include. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you know I was saying that because that I was looking at the original Act, the Crops Act. I could not see it listed. Maybe it was put in a gazette notice of which I am not aware. But, thank you for that information. So, I think this crop is going to be put under part II which is basically crops with breeding programme. That is very significant because it is going to encourage research, development and, most importantly, certification of new varieties of this crop. So, I think this will be a great step for ... view
• 18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you know I was saying that because that I was looking at the original Act, the Crops Act. I could not see it listed. Maybe it was put in a gazette notice of which I am not aware. But, thank you for that information. So, I think this crop is going to be put under part II which is basically crops with breeding programme. That is very significant because it is going to encourage research, development and, most importantly, certification of new varieties of this crop. So, I think this will be a great step for ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to also support this Bill. I will point out a few things that I think must be looked into. The first thing is on the proposal on the redrafting of the Referendum Bill which, according to this Bill, is supposed to be done by Parliament. That is wrong because the promoters should have much say in the process of redrafting the Bill because those are the people who have gone around the country… view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you for that guidance. I was just trying to emphasise the point that, at the Committee of the whole House, this is a very important issue to look into. In the original Bill, that was not the case. The second point is on the authority to frame and publish the question. I think this should be the responsibility of the promoters and not any other person like the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) or Parliament. This should strictly be the promoters’ issue. Even the determination of whether to have a single question or multiple questions should be the ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: the whole process. This issue must be looked into very keenly so that we clean up at the Committee of the whole House stage. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: The other issue is application of the Election Act. If you look at the Bill, you will see that we have, at least, 30 consequential amendments to the Election Act. This is not very clean. Maybe, we should have considered merging both the Election Act and the Referendum Act. If you look at this Bill in Clause 3, it proposes situations and events where the Election Act can be applied. This is not very neat. We just need to state that the Election Act will be applicable where necessary. The best thing is to try and merge the two Acts ... view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: The other issue is the power of IEBC to make regulations. There are 31 situations where the IEBC can make regulations. This is contrary to the recommendations of the Kriegler Report which recommended that we should not give too much discretion to IEBC on some issues. I think this is a matter that we need to look into because it can also create unnecessary delays in processing those regulations. view
• 16 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Lastly, it is on the issue of verification of signatures. This process must be very clear. What is involved in verifying signatures? Does IEBC have a repository of signatures? The answer is no. So, what have they been verifying? We want to be told as Kenyans because we provided our information under the Huduma Namba project. Can this be integrated in the IEBC system so that in future we do not struggle looking for signatures to verify? The system will be able to give us the signatures and we will be certain that the signatures we are using are the ... view