Godfrey Osotsi

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• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Standing Order so that if I present my Bill to the Committee and it is not approved and I strongly believe it is the right thing to do, then as a Member I can make an appeal to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The other thing is the threshold of determining the extent of a Money Bill effect. I know there are some Bills which are Money Bills but the extent of the money bill effect is so low. You find a very good Bill is not approved because it is a Money Bill and yet the extent of money ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Standing Order so that if I present my Bill to the Committee and it is not approved and I strongly believe it is the right thing to do, then as a Member I can make an appeal to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The other thing is the threshold of determining the extent of a Money Bill effect. I know there are some Bills which are Money Bills but the extent of the money bill effect is so low. You find a very good Bill is not approved because it is a Money Bill and yet the extent of money ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. This is a Motion on two Bills from the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA): the East African Community Custom Management (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, 2018 and the Administration of the East African Legislative Assembly (Amendment) Bill, 2018. I listened to the Chair of the Committee make a presentation. It is clear that the amendment to the East African Community Custom Management Bill is very important because these are some of the legislations that will facilitate the East African Community to become a functional ... view
• 21 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. This is a Motion on two Bills from the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA): the East African Community Custom Management (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, 2018 and the Administration of the East African Legislative Assembly (Amendment) Bill, 2018. I listened to the Chair of the Committee make a presentation. It is clear that the amendment to the East African Community Custom Management Bill is very important because these are some of the legislations that will facilitate the East African Community to become a functional ... view
• 20 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I have listened very carefully to my colleagues who have been contributing. Most of them have supported the Bill. From the outset, I oppose this Bill. I am not just opposing for the sake of it. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have been following the development in this area. I have also done quite a lot of research. If this Parliament passes this Bill as it is, it will be doing a disservice to this country. The issue I have with this Bill is that it ... view
• 20 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Secondly, you need to give direction. When a committee of Parliament is investigating a matter which has not been completed, is it right for the implementation agency to circumvent the issues raised in the Committee and sneak in amendments to the Act? I am saying this because I am the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Implementation. We are currently investigating the issues around the National Sports Fund. The Cabinet Secretary (CS), National Treasury, and the CS, Ministry of Sports and Heritage appeared before us. One of the issues that we are investigating is that the National Sports Fund was ... view
• 20 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: The Regulations that were brought to us are ambiguous. I want to point out a few ambiguities. The amendments will be there but substantive issues like allocation of funds will be in the regulation which is not right. For example, in terms of allocation, the Bill says an amount not exceeding 60 per cent. This means that they can even give the sporting activities 0 per cent. Although they have given the allocation, they have given the CS, National Treasury, the powers The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report ... view
• 20 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: to vary the percentages, if he wishes. I have read the Committee Report which is good. However, one thing they forgot to tell the House is what happens to the regulation that gives the CS, National Treasury, the powers to vary the allocation of funds. It is silent on that. What does it mean? It means we have killed the National Sports Fund and taken the responsibility to the Sports, Arts and Social Development Fund. We have then allocated the money which was meant for the youths under sports to other things which are not sports related, and then given ... view
• 20 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: The other anomaly is that there is an ambiguity in the administrator of the Fund. He can either be the Principal Secretary for sports or any other person appointed by the CS, National Treasury. That is confusing. If you read the responsibilities of an administrator, there are day to day responsibilities things like managing the Fund on a day to day basis. What is the work of the secretariat of the new Fund? The best thing we need to do, as Parliament, is to clearly look at these amendments at the Committee of the whole House. If the Government wanted ... view
• 20 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: If you look at the transition of staff, they are saying that they will have to re-apply for their jobs and be vetted afresh. Some of these people used to hold other jobs. They applied for this job and now you are telling them that when the new Fund comes in place, they will re-apply for their job. That is wrong. We have a precedent in this country. For example, when the Electricity Regulatory Board changed to become the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), there was no such transition mechanism that the staff has to re-apply for jobs and be vetted. view