Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (i) civic education; view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (ii) capacity building; view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (iii) facilitating party candidates in campaigns; view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (iv)publicity; and view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (v) such other measures as may be approved by the Registrar. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (b) deleting the proviso and substituting therefor the following new proviso− “Provided that for purposes of paragraph (a)− 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
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: (i) not less than thirty per cent of the monies allocated to a political party under section 25 shall be used for the purposes referred to in subsection(1)(a); and (ii) a person shall benefit from the provisions of this paragraph where the person is seeking to be elected for his or her first term in Parliament or a county assembly.” view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The gist of this amendment is that this particular clause proposes that the special interest groups will benefit from civic education, capacity building, facilitation of party candidates in campaigns, publicity and such other measures as may be approved by the Registrar. My amendment is to ensure that persons who have already benefited in the way of representation in Parliament or county assemblies, shall not come later and demand to benefit from all these provisions listed here. For example, if I am a Woman Representative of some county and I have served for five years, I should not come back to ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 18 of the Bill be amended in paragraph (b) by deleting the words “and minutes of the approval of the list by the Party’s election board” appearing in the proposed new subsection (2) and substituting therefor the words “in accordance with the prescribed regulations and the relevant constitution of the party” The gist of this amendment is basically to try and sort out the challenge noted in Clause 18. It says that there would be a statutory declaration signed by the person authorised to certify that the candidates were nominated ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Actually, Hon. Millie has brought out very precisely about the gist of my amendment. I think my amendment removes that micromanagement of political parties and ensures that parties follow their constitutions because constitutions of parties differ. There are some constitutions that talk about an election board and others rely on the National Executive Committee to make a decision on the issue of nomination. Others can even go further and seek ratification of the national governing council. Therefore, we cannot restrict political parties to the national election board alone knowing very well that it is a very junior body in the ... view