Godfrey Osotsi

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• 21 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: appointed by the CS. We need to be very specific on whose interest they will represent in the Board because it is not clear. It is so wide for the CS to choose any person without specific information on whom he will represent. view
• 21 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I have also looked at the financing of this Authority which the Bill is a bit silent on. It is not clear how this Authority will be financed. We may assume that it will be financed by the Exchequer, but when it comes to operationalisation, we may consider funding it from the license fees or taxes. We need to be very specific on how this Authority will be financed. There will be transition from BCLB. However, we need to be very clear on all the specific issues on transition, especially when it comes to transition of staff from the old ... view
• 21 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Another very important issue is license fees. As much as I agree with a number of Members who are saying that we need to manage the negative effect of betting and gaming in this country, we cannot set very high license fees. This Bill is proposing to set up very high license fees of between Kshs5million and Kshs100 million. In addition to that, after every three to five years, you will pay high renewal fees. We also have charges on gaming security which is also very high. It is up to Kshs100 million. These fees will discourage investment in this ... view
• 21 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 21 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: conduct this business? It will be very difficult. The Committee should look at that provision which I think is not necessary. In this era of technology, I do not think it makes sense. There is the issue of restriction on the use of foreign servers. My background is in IT. I can tell you that it is not practical for you to say you will restrict the use of foreign servers. We recently passed data protection law. It will deal with such issues that the Committee is trying to remedy. There is also the issue of Communication Authority to ensure ... view
• 21 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I support, but I will bring some amendments so that we remove some of those ambiguities. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. The key objective of the amendments to the Competition Act is to deal with some ambiguities in the parent Act. For instance, to define what buyer power is in relation to abuse of dominance. But there is a lot of inconsistency in this amendment Bill. You are well aware that, recently, we had the Speaker’s Round Table with Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) in Mombasa. One thing which came out of this meeting was the concern by the private sector that we need to ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: professional associations is to maintain standards and provide quality services. However, if we are going to allow the Competition Authority to even interfere with the operation of professional associations, we will not be promoting quality outcomes from those professional associations. I think this Bill is not going to cure the problem. In fact, it is going to enhance the inconsistencies that businesses have complained about; that is, how the Competition Act is inconsistent with various other laws governing other sectors. There is the issue of price reduction which is in Clause 24A(6)(g) where they are saying that price reduction should ... view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I also made a request for a statement to the Departmental Committee on Lands on matters of eviction in Kiptuya Ward. That was on the last day before we went for the short recess. I have not had any feedback from the Committee. When I talked to the Chair, she told me that she is not aware of that matter. So, Hon. Speaker, I would like you to intervene on this matter. view
• 14 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to also raise my voice on this Motion. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to agree with the recommendation of the Committee in that, in my view, these regulations are illegal, unlawful and very punitive. Besides that, I have listened carefully to the Mover of this Motion. He said that we did not have adequate public participation. This is the most important reason why these regulations should be annulled. You cannot conduct public participation in Nairobi alone and we know that we have 47 counties where services of private security guards ... view