Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As explained by the Chair, the Committee on Implementation is very important because it is the Committee of last resort. It is such that after all committees have given their reports, and after this House has made a decision, it is this Committee that is supposed to follow up on the implementation of the House’s resolutions 60 days later. This Committee has been looking at the Report by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock on the crisis facing the sugar industry in Kenya – the Report that was adopted by this House on 24th February ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: You gave a ruling to the effect that the Committee gives chance to Kenafric Industries Limited and reconsiders their case on the basis that the rules of natural justice were not followed when the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock was processing the Report. We 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
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: sat down, as a Committee, and confirmed that indeed there were omissions by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: First, Kenafric Industries sought to be heard but the Committee, in its own wisdom, refused to grant them permission to be heard. This goes against our laws on fair administrative justice and our Constitution, which clearly stipulate that one has to be heard before judgment is made. The issue of Kenafric Industries Limited was brought by the then Kenya Sugar Board, which has since changed to Kenya Sugar Directorate (KSD). The Kenya Sugar Board then indicated that one of the companies that were repackaging sugar was Kenafric Industries Limited. However, the omission was that the defunct Kenya Sugar Board did ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, your direction to the Committee on Implementation was very basic. It was that we receive submissions from Kenafric Industries Limited but we do not open a fresh inquiry. We did exactly that but to confirm the issues that were raised by Kenafric Industries Limited, in our own wisdom, we invited the KSD and the Ministry of Agriculture. When they appeared before us, the KSD clearly told us that they were unable to provide any evidence to implicate Kenafric Industries Limited. The same was said by the Ministry of Agriculture, who appeared before us. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in the Report that was adopted by this House, there was no supporting evidence apart from the minutes where KSB appeared and implicated Kenafric Industries Limited. We also found out that there are two levels of inspections that are done before an import licence is granted. One is done by the KSD while the other one is done by a Council of Ministers of East Africa, which was done. In these two reports, there is no evidence that this company was involved in illicit importation of sugar and repackaging of the same. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Most importantly, this must be a lesson to our committees. Please, do a thorough job. You give the Committee on Implementation a lot of hard work to do if your recommendations are not supported by evidence that should be attached on your Report. We also noted that some of the recommendations contained in various reports are not implementable because of the style in which they are written. Some recommendations are vague in nature and so it becomes very difficult to implement. At some point, we must come up with some standards on issues of report writing. We must ensure that ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The other issue we noticed is that KSD did not implement the Report as required. They waited until the Committee on Implementation wrote to them asking for the implementation status. That was when they started to act. They delayed issuance of licence to this company. Our intervention is what triggered this mater. Therefore, there was the issue of not being heard by the Committee and the issue of not following the law by KSD. Thirdly, no corresponding evidence was attached to the Report to support it. Another very important point is that Kenafric Industries Limited had been gazetted to import ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. To finalise, I think the gist of this matter is that this company was not heard and this is against the law of fair administrative justice and the Constitution. On that basis, we recommended that the House; one, reconsiders it resolution made on 24th February 2016 which was arrived at following information contained in recommendation 108. Two, that the House expunges the name “Kenafric Industries Limited” from its resolution of 24th February 2016 as contained in recommendation 108. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I second. view