Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I join my colleague, Hon. Anthony Oluoch, in saying that I partially support this Bill. Whereas I agree with the very valid reasons given to justify why we need the elections in December and not in August, we must also be alive to the fact that this Constitution is highly integrated. One section of the Constitution affects many other parts. Any attempt to amend part of the Constitution affects many other parts of the Constitution. As my colleague, Anthony Oluoch has said, there are many requests and proposals to amend the Constitution. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: When we passed the Constitution in 2010, we were told that after ten years we would have an opportunity to reflect back and audit what has been implemented to see how it has worked and then on the basis of that audit, we would determine what to change. It is now eight years since we passed the Constitution. This is an opportunity for Kenyans to reflect on what has been implemented, what has worked and, what has not worked. It is only after having a structured process of implementation of the Constitution and an audit of what has been implemented ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I have a copy of the Report by the Committee. Reading through it, it is clear that we had almost equal view points on whether to support or not, the change the of the elections date. Even in the Committee, one of the Members, Hon. Peter Kaluma, gave a dissenting opinion. He is a very distinguished constitutional lawyer. He raised very fundamental issues. One of the issues he raised is that one of the amendments proposed is likely to change the term of office of the President. The change of term of office of the President is one of the ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Whereas I totally agree with the reasons why we need to change the elections date because of the school calendar and because of budgetary issues, it is important that we look at changes in the Constitution in a holistic manner rather than in the piecemeal manner which we are trying to advance. We should also start thinking of how to live with the August date. The 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
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: reasons given for its change are more administrative. The school calendar is an administrative issue. It is not constitutional. We can reconfigure the dates for schools. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: My viewpoint, as it has been alluded to by Hon. Oluoch, is that we consolidate all the constitutional review initiatives; take them through a very structure people driven process; come up with recommendations; pass them through a referendum where necessary; and, have a new elections date. But, the efforts to carry out piecemeal amendments of the Constitution may be very costly. As I said, every part of the Constitution is key and it is intertwined with other parts. For example, as alluded to by Hon. Kaluma, this amendment affects the term of office of the President which is key. It ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I partially support the Bill. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I want to tell Hon. Atandi that I am an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) expert. I also have a background in accounts because I did Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination up to the last stage. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: When I read through this Finance Bill, one thing that comes to mind is that this Government is desperate to raise money. They have taxed almost every basic commodity, including water. Why is this happening? It is happening because we have a Kshs5 trillion debt as a country. This has almost doubled since 2014 when the Jubilee Government took over. So, we have a serious problem. If you look at the composition of this debt, Kshs2.6 trillion of it is foreign. It is largely a bilateral debt with a country like China and others. Instead of going for multilateral debt, ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Let me discuss this Bill. There is Excise Duty on bottled water. This is not right because water is an essential commodity. People buy bottled water because only 55 per cent of available water is safe for drinking. The Government is unable to provide safe drinking water to its people. So, people have reverted to bottled water. The same Government, which is unable to provide safe drinking water, has decided to put Excise Duty on bottled water. I am concerned because with the importation challenges that we have in this country, we will import water from Brazil or Uganda soon. ... view