Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I support this amendment because this particular clause is repetitive. It seems to be repeating Clause 10, which talks about promoting representation in Parliament and in county assemblies of special interest groups through civic education, capacity building, facilitating party candidates in campaign and publicity. Media coverage is part of publicity. It is repetitive. It has already been covered under Clause 10. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support that amendment. It is basically bringing clarity to the Elections Act as to the definition of “special interest groups”. If I may take you back, if you look at Clause 10, which we have 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: already handled - and I know we are not going back there because of procedure - we had said that the five categories of people will benefit from civic education, capacity building, facilitation during campaigns, publicity and any other such measures that may be approved by the House. For instance, people who are in this House like Hon. ole Sankok and others, who are in this group, will still go back to their parties for funding to do all these things. That is why my amendment was giving a provision to say that if you have benefited by presenting… view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I am not taking you back, but I am just informing the House that probably at some point, we may need to relook at this provision under Clause 10. It is going to be discriminatory and yet this Bill is supposed to remove that discrimination under Article 100 of the Constitution. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to also contribute to this very important Motion. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: First, I appreciate this system of handling omnibus amendments as opposed to what we are used to - the Statutes Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act which sometimes contains so many amendments to unconnected laws and gives us a lot of problems. When we put together amendments of a similar nature, it becomes very easy. So, I commend the Government for that approach. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Secondly, this particular Bill proposes to introduce electronic signature and advanced electronic signature to have a force of law just like the hand written signature. This is long overdue. It is something we have been wishing to have especially some of us who work in the IT sector. We have been pushing for this electronic signature. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have reservations. You can see the amendment is proposing to amend the definition of “signature” to include two aspects: electronic signature and advanced electronic signature. Those are two different things. An electronic signature is like the hand written signature that you can sign and scan on a document and use electronically. An advanced electronic signature is a digital signature which is something else. I have heard my colleagues talking about security of online transactions now that we are going to have electronic and advanced electronic signatures. The concern I have is that in this country ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: You have heard the CS, ICT, talking about the Government wanting to implement block chain technology, artificial intelligence and e-government in our system. This Bill will play a big role in helping the Government achieve some of those very good technologies. In brief, I think this is the way to go but, I am concerned that we have to deal with the half measures I have referred to so that this can work. Otherwise, we will have a lot of challenges especially on matters to do with digital signature which is being referred to as advanced electronic signature. With those ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to ask Question No. 005/2020, directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. It reads: (i) Is the Cabinet Secretary aware of the increased incidents of insecurity in Vihiga County, in particular, the recent murders which took place in Itenji and Busamu villages of Vihiga Sub County on 17th and 20th February, 2020, which are in close proximity to Mbale and Magada police stations? (ii) What steps is the Ministry taking to deal with increasing cases of brutal killings and the overall security management in Vihiga County? Thank you, Hon. ... view