Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: This Bill talks about innovation and invention by employees. Where does it leave non- employees? For example, if I have my innovation, as any other Kenyan, it needs to be protected and so, I would take it to KIRDI to make it better and protect it. That is an omission that we need to consider at the Committee of the whole House. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Generally, this is a step forward because the Bill will give us a framework in which we will coordinate research and innovation and we are going to ensure there is commercialisation of research activities and most importantly, we are going to have an industrial technology repository where we will have information on all industrial technologies. We need to do much more than what has been done in this Bill. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Another important thing is that although the Bill is coming now, an Act of Parliament was passed by this House called the Science Technology and Innovation Act, 2013, that is largely unimplemented. Many parts of it are not implemented. So, these are challenges. This House passes pieces of legislation which are never implemented. I would have expected that even as we come up with this Bill, we are told what happened so far in terms of the Science, Technology and Innovation Act, which was passed in 2013. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: For this country to innovate, we must invest in research, technology and innovation. This country cannot develop by telling people that instead of innovating or going the technology way, we should go the wheelbarrow way. The country will not develop through wheelbarrows. The 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: country will develop through innovation and research, but not through wheelbarrows. Any leader who aspires to become the President of this country, but tells our youth that we cannot innovate instead we go back to the 17th or the 19th centuries, is not supposed to lead this country. We must, as leaders, and I am happy we have some Members of Parliament professing the wheelbarrow technology, not go the wheelbarrow way. We are going to go the research and innovation way. The only leader who knows how this is supposed to be done in an engineer, Raila Amolo Odinga. view
• 24 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I support the Bill. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to contribute to the next item, not this one. view
• 17 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I concur with the rest of the Members who have spoken that this Bill has very important benefits to this country. For instance, it will boost social welfare in our communities. It will also make it quicker to register groups because as you know, right now, groups are registered as either societies, trusts or associations. However, this particular legislation will now make it easy to register other groups including resident associations, family groups and even social media groups. It will be possible. I have read ... view
• 17 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to second. This is a major milestone for this Parliament because the Departmental Committee on Lands tabled a Report in the House on 25th June 2015 in relation to the matter of Taita Sisal Farm which is a large track of land that cultivates sisal. I am even told it is the largest sisal farm in Africa. It was as a result of the rising tension and public outcry or under conflict between the estate and some squatters that the Departmental Committee on Lands made recommendations and the Committee on Implementation have been pursuing ... view
• 17 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: surrendered by the Estate - the 539 acres of land. We have also recommended that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, the National Land Commission (NLC) and the County Government of Taita Taveta should engage the local community for concurrence during the extension and renewal of leases for the Taita Sisal Estate when they expire. That is very important. Most importantly, as pointed out by my Chairman, this problem is largely because of a rogue group called Mwasima Mbuwa Welfare Association that has been collecting money from desperate wananchi and squatters in the name of trying to help them ... view