Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion by Hon. Florence Mutua, Member for Busia. I start by sending my condolences to the family of the victims of this road carnage. Most of the people who are affected by road carnage are from western Kenya, particularly Kakamega County. It is so sad that one county can lose over 40 people in one accident. As my colleagues have said, there are various issues that we need to look at to address this issue of road carnage. One is the issue of institutions that are involved ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: To end, I also call upon the Government which has not even sent any condolence message to consider offering financial assistance to the victims of road accidents. Some families have up to three people who died in the road accident. It is very difficult at this point to expect the families to bury their dead in this economic situation. So, I am asking our Government to consider assisting the victims and families so that they can bury their dead. It can also help them in their livelihoods. For that matter, I support the Motion and call upon the Government to ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: (Nominated, ANC) asked the Cabinet Secretary of Treasury and Planning to: (a) provide the total proceeds of sports lottery and taxes collected under Section 12 of the Sports Act, 2013 during the 2017/2018 Financial Year; and (b) the total amount paid into the National Sports Fund during the said period and the projected levies for the current 2018/2019 Financial Year. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. As you are aware, 60 per cent of the world population lives in urban areas and it is increasing by the day. In our various areas, there is a lot of vibrancy in our markets and municipalities as a result of the devolution process. We need to see proper planning of those areas, so that we can reap maximum benefit. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: This is a very important Bill. However, after going through it, you realise that there are areas that require some improvements as it has been suggested by the Chairperson of the Committee. The criterion for determining a city, municipality, town or an urban area is very limiting. You cannot say that you rely on population and integrated urban area development plan as the only criterion for determining whether an area is a city, municipality or town. We know globally that there are cities in the world which have less population, but they are categorised as cities. For example, Geneva City ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: This Bill is also not talking about metropolitan areas. It is only limiting us to cities. We need to talk about metropolitan areas like Nairobi, Kiambu and Kajiado. How do we manage that? I come from Vihiga County. The towns along the way are developing very fast and, very soon, they will be part of Kisumu metropolitan. So, this Bill must be forward-looking. It must talk about metropolitan areas. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Secondly, the Bill refers to a representative of IEBC on those ad hoc committees. We need a definition of a representative because Article 83 of the Constitution limits members of the commission from holding other public offices. We will look at these issues in the Committee of the whole House. The most important issue is funding. We must consider that seriously because we cannot talk about all these good proposals without money. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Lastly, the list of services in the First Schedule is very limiting. For example, when you look at cities, they do not talk about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure. It is not among the services that are listed. An ICT infrastructure is one of the key services in modern cities. It should be a shared ICT infrastructure. We do not want to see a scenario where people are digging trenches everyday. We want all operators to operate under one infrastructure so that we can have proper planning of technology in our cities. The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support the Bill. I promise that we will bring amendments at the Committee of the whole House to make this Bill more progressive. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view