Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: In terms of the number of years of experience, I want to agree with my colleagues that 10 years is quite short as a serious qualified engineer. We need someone who is professionally mature and one who can instil confidence in his colleagues. Nowadays, we also have the issue of quality of training as we have so many engineering schools in various universities that have been questioned in the past. So, as much as we are vouching for young people to take up jobs, we must understand that matters of engineering affect life. Therefore, we want engineers who will produce ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: We also have the issue of intra-continental connectivity which requires a longer time especially at a moment like this when we have discussions around connecting African countries. Some of these projects will be overseen by the DG. In this case, we need someone who has at least 15 years’ experience and not 10 years’ as it had been earlier pointed out. view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Members have not commented on Chapter Six of the Constitution. We all know that we appropriate huge sums of money for road construction in this country but most of these monies are misappropriated. There is evidence that there is a lot of corruption involving people who work in these road agencies. We even had a case where officers from Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) were questioned on the issue of irregular award of contracts, money laundering and such things. Therefore, it is important that whoever takes up this position undergoes a lifestyle audit because it would ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to agree with my friend, Dr. Oundo who spoke about the issue of equity in distribution of road contracts. It is true that road construction projects are not equitably distributed in this country. There is need to look at the whole management of the road sector in this country. With the new Constitution in place, we should not centralise KeRRA and the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA). They need to be taken back to the counties so that they are managed there. This will ensure that money allocated to Vihiga County is used to ... view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: It is just a point of information. view
• 25 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: To him. I think he was not listening. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to also support the Kenya Industrial and Research and Development Institute Bill. 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
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: As it has been pointed out, the Bill is quite timely because KIRDI has been around for some time. It is a surprise that it has been running without a substantive law, but this is an opportunity for them to have legislation to support their operations. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: As I support the Bill, allow me to point out a few areas of concern in the Bill. Clause 5 provides a list of various areas in which KIRDI will be handling industrial research and development. One of the critical areas that is missing is ICT. They have listed all the other things like civil engineering, electrical engineering, food technology and industrial technology, but ICT is not among the areas that KIRDI is going to look at. This is a big problem because this sector is not managed very well when it comes to research and innovation, yet it is ... view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Recently, this country launched the digital economy policy that talks about good things and how this country is going to make money through digital technology. There is no way the digital economy is being protected through intellectual property rights or through protecting the rights of the people who innovate. My expectation was that ICT would have been listed as one of the areas to be considered. In any case, all the listed areas still revolve around ICT because it is an enabler of all the listed areas. I have a concern on that. view