Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this important opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. From the outset, I support this Bill; it is long overdue. I have heard my colleagues who have reservations about it. If this Parliament wants to be remembered as a progressive Parliament, this is one of the Bills that we need to pass. I am saying so because I have heard what other colleagues have said. If we want to deal with the problem of corporate governance in this country, this is a Bill that we must pass. The challenges we are having with ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: few issues in this Bill but I am sure we will look at them during the Committee of the whole House. However, we cannot throw out this Bill on the basis of it conflicting with other legislations. Those who are saying so have not given us specific legislations that are in conflict with this Bill. In any case, Section 172 of the Companies Act defines the duties of a director of a company. It does not provide mechanism of enforcing it. Now, this Bill will provide that mechanism of enforcing the Companies Act in terms of duties of directors. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: When we talk about corporate governance, we are also talking about issues of taxation. If we fix corporate governance in our organisation, we will be able to get enough resources through taxation because we are losing a lot of taxation resources because of poor corporate governance in our organisations. We are also talking about real issues like IT governance. Issues to do with cyber-crime and data protection. If we have directors who understand what corporate governance means and what issues of IT governance mean, then we will be able to deal with some of the challenges we have been having. ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the outset, I join my colleagues in opposing it and urge that we consider withdrawing it. I am saying this because we have three Bills before the House which have gone through the First Reading, namely, a Bill by Hon. Jude Njomo, one by Hon. Kioni and a third one. These three Bills seek to do the same thing, to solve the lacuna in law on appointment of commissioners when a vacancy arises. This brings to light two issues. The first one is ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: After the 2007 General Elections, we brought Justice Kriegler who did a very wonderful report. More than 60 per cent of what was recommended in the Report has not been implemented. Most of the issues raised in it are solutions to the problem we have in elections management. Why can we not start from there? I challenge the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that it is not proper for him to bring an Amendment Bill The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: to the IEBC Act by only highlighting one issue when we have many others that we need to look at. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: On the selection panel, I join my colleagues who have opposed its composition. It is composed of a nominee from the LSK, the PSC and the Attorney-General. Elections in the world have become electronic. Even at the IEBC, one of the problems we had was electronic transmission of results. We cannot have people selected to manage our elections who do not have an understanding of electronic management of elections. I expected that one of the people to be considered for appointment to the selection panel is an individual who understands ICT and electronic management of elections. We expected to see ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: One of the amendments that the Committee should have considered, and I am glad Hon. Kioni has included this in his Amendment Bill, is the review of boundaries. Article 89(2) of the Constitution provides that the IEBC will review the names and boundaries of constituencies at intervals of not less than eight years and not more than 12 years. There are challenges and obstacles that need to be resolved to make it happen. For example, from next month starting tomorrow, the IEBC will start the process of boundaries review by coming up with a preliminary report. Have we provided funds ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: I oppose this Amendment Bill on the basis that we need to have a comprehensive election management regime by looking at all the relevant laws that will support an efficient, free and fair election. At the same time, I ask the committee that was appointed by the former Prime Minister and the President, the Building Bridges Initiative, to hurry up because they are delaying Kenyans. They need to bring a report. One of the issues that have been identified in the nine- point agenda is the issue of elections. They should bring their report, so that we can look at ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I oppose. I ask that this Bill be withdrawn. view