Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: We are discussing the Report on Judiciary for the year 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 which is a requirement under the Judicial Service Act of 2011, that the Chief Justice will present a report on the state of the Judiciary to Parliament every year. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: This is one of the best reports I have read in this House. The Report is well written, well- structured and it captures many of the issues that we would want to hear as representatives of the people. I would like to comment on a few things: One is on budget reallocation as has been discussed by my colleagues. One of the challenges of the Judiciary is lack of adequate budget. I am happy that in the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) that we recently passed, we have increased the ceiling for the Judiciary. I hope when we get the Estimates ... view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: This is a very serious matter and I wonder why line ministries are illegally holding onto these tribunals. One of the issues raised is that we do not have legislation on tribunals yet, this Bill is before the Attorney-General. One wonders why the Attorney-General is taking too long to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: bring this Bill to Parliament so that we can help the Judiciary take control of all tribunals and offer justice to Kenyans. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The other issue is the Office of Ombudsman. One of the issues noted is that this office is not known to many Kenyans. A lot of publicity has to be done to make it known. Fundamentally, there is no law that is supporting the establishment of this office. It is more administratively managed and there is no legislation in place. Therefore, the Judiciary should move with speed and come up with appropriate legislation to ensure the Office of the Ombudsman in the Judiciary works, because it is a very critical unit within the judicial system. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The biggest problem we have in the Judiciary is the backlog of cases. This Report attempts to propose various solutions of dealing with this problem. One is that they want to focus more on alternative dispute resolution. In the Financial Year 2017/2018 they managed to handle 705 cases valued at Kshs20.8 billion. This tells you that we can do a lot in managing some of these cases, if the Judiciary enhanced the mechanism of alternative dispute resolution. The other issue is non-operationalisation of the Small Claims Court Act, 2016. This was a law supposed to deal with petty cases. According ... view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: listening to us. We need a substantive finance director at the Judiciary. This is because a lady by the name Susan Oyatsi has acted for four years. They did an interview and she emerged number one but she has not been given the position. We need to know why this has taken too long. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, this is an assignment for you. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I support. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have an amendment but when we get there, I will be withdrawing it after consultation. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Allow me to comment, Madam Chair… view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The basis of my amendment was basically to try and correct a technical… view