Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 681 to 690 of 854.

• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion by the Mathare Member of Parliament, my good friend, Hon. Anthony Oluoch. The Motion seeks to declare youth unemployment a national disaster and establish a national youth fund. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The Motion is timely because the youth of this country who form over 70 per cent of the population are carriers of our social problems like drugs, poverty, unemployment, disease, crime and terrorism. The youths suffer the most. The youth are a critical issue that requires attention of all leaders in this country. We have not given it the focus it deserves as a country. I know a lot has been done in terms of affirmative action for women and for other socially disadvantaged groups. But in matters to do with the youth, we have handled them very casually. Recently, ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We should not create a fund to give the youth money the way the National Youth Enterprise Fund is doing. It has been turned into a political fund where one is given money with no commitment on repaying and is distributed along political lines. We want a progressive fund. That has been done in other countries. South Africa and Singapore have a similar fund to what Hon. Oluoch is proposing. That is the reason why those countries have developed. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We should also think about a start-up fund programme. That seems to be the best practice globally. Every developed country has a start-up fund where youth borrow money to invest in innovation or in entrepreneurship which can add to the economic progress of the country. We do not want to promote a dependence culture. We want them to access the money and the money to be used to promote innovation. 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
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: We should also think about public private partnerships. There are many international organisations that want to support youth empowerment programmes. Let all that be consolidated in the initiative Hon. Oluoch is proposing. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: It is probably time for us to think about a constitutional review to introduce the National Youth Commission as one of the independent commissions in the Constitution. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I start by commending the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the good work they have done within the shortest time possible. However, I think they would have done better because looking at the figures and comparing with their past reports, there are some Votes which I think the Budget and Appropriations Committee would have looked at and, probably, harmonised the budget to reduce the budget gap. I want to give an example of the State Department for Vocational and Technical Training, which is Vote No.1064. The details around ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in National Assembly: Technology (ICT) of about Kshs5.9 billion. I am concerned because we cannot talk about the Big Four Agenda without ICT as a driver. We cannot talk about innovation in this country if we are reducing the budget of ICT. I think this budget was meant for the Konza City, which those of us who are in the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation were very glad that now the Government had taken a positive step to ensure that this country innovates. However, that has further been reduced and that will mean that we will not take the Konza City ... view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. This trend of annulling regulations is very worrying. From the position of the Committee on Implementation, where I am the Vice-Chair, we realise that so many laws do not have the accompanying regulations. Any attempt to come up with regulations ends up with these kinds of challenges. Maybe we need to look for a proactive way of dealing with this matter so that when regulations come to us, they can be adopted by the House. One way is for the Committee on Delegated Legislation having capacity-building sessions with the lawyers in various ministries who draft ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. view