Godfrey Osotsi

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• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: hoping that we will see serious activities happening at Konza City with the amount we have given them. We have also allocated money for consultancy. In the Supplementary Estimates, we allocated money to pay all the pending bills. So, we expect to get value for money in this project so that we can have a proper techno city as desired by Kenyans. For that reason, I support. view
• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support this amendment. The facts are that the allocated amount is Kshs140 million. This means Kshs60 million will go towards the establishment of the Kenya Film School under the Kenya Film Commission (KFC). But we also thought that management is important because film making is a process which starts with content generation. So, Kshs80 million will go towards the refurbishment and improvement of Nairobi Cinema under the Kenya Film Classification Board, which is engaged in what we call proactive regulation. They want to start regulating from the content processing to the final manufacturing ... view
• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for the opportunity. I appreciate the comments from Hon. Kioni on the performance of the KBC. I want to tell him that as the Departmental Committee on Information and Communications, we appreciate the problem. One of the challenges that we have noted at the KBC is that it entered into an agreement with Multichoice. It owns 40 per cent of Multichoice. For every reason, Multichoice is making a lot of money, but KBC is making loses. As a Committee, we have initiated a process to do an inquiry into the operations of Multichoice. We ... view
• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Multichoice. I am also happy that the new Managing Director of KBC has asked the Auditor- General to move in and audit the books of Multichoice. We hope that if that is done, KBC will start making profit. We are also looking into the operations of KBC. I ask Members to pass this budget because the Committee is already doing something about KBC. view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I join my colleague, Hon. Nyikal, to oppose this 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
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Bill. As he has said, it has now become a tradition that whenever you see a Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, you must read through it carefully because that is where sometimes bad things are hidden. Indeed, even in this one, there are some amendments which have been proposed, which in my own view, are not good for this country. One of them is on the Districts and Provinces Act, 1992. This Bill is not properly before the House. If you read the memorandum to this Bill, it says the Bills do not affect the counties. view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am making reference to the Districts and Provinces (Amendment) Act. The memorandum to this Bill states that the Bills which are contained in this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill do not affect the counties but when you read through the parent Act of the Districts and Provinces Act, you realise that the provisions of that Act refer to the counties that we have because it talks about Kenya being divided into 47 districts, Nairobi and other 46 districts. We are aware that this country is in the devolution arrangement where we have 47 counties and ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we know we already have another Act of Parliament called “the National Government Coordination Act” which recognises the 47 counties. However, this one is talking about districts and provinces. We no longer have provinces in this country. So, my concern is that the amendments before this House touch only on one aspect of the regulations; they do not talk about removing districts and provinces and renaming them. I am happy that the committee responsible said that it is going to withdraw this particular amendment. On the amendment to the Kenya School of Law and Legal Education ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: On the proposed amendments to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act that are seeking to create additional accounting officers for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), I think there is mischief. As Hon. Omboko said, we will bring amendments. We cannot allow mischief to creep into the PSC. If we have a problem with a particular accounting officer, we need to address it administratively. We cannot address the problem by seeking to amend a law. Tomorrow, we may have issues with a different commission. Will we have the benefit of amending the law so that we resolve that issue? On this ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise to ask Question No. 223/2019 directed to the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning. (i) What is the status of the lifestyle audit of public officers that was ordered in 2018, particularly, for heads of accounts and procurement departments in public institutions? (ii) In reference to (i) above, what action has been taken so far on officers whose lifestyle audits raised queries, if any? (iii) Are there plans to ensure that all State officers undergo the same audit in line with the Leadership and Integrity Act? Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view