Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Motion. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion, which I support. You know that 80 per cent of our time is spent in committees. We sit in committees, discussing things and writing reports. We have a serious challenge in this Parliament because the committee rooms are not conducive for serious meetings. The rooms are too small. The average number of Members of a departmental committee is 19. Sometimes you invite officials from the Government and they come in large numbers of about 30 officers and you are all squeezed in that room, ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The other issue of concern is the application of ICT. The application of ICT in this Parliament is not up to the required standard, even where we are seated. Recently, they made some effort and brought us some gadgets. These iPads are not serving the purpose starting from the casing itself. I do not know where they made these casings. Was it a Jua kali casing or what kind of casing was this? It does not look good. The workmanship is so poor. The applications The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: that have been put on this iPad are so difficult for Members to use. A good ICT system must be user friendly. Members are struggling to even access Order Papers here. I think we need to be serious on the application of ICT in Parliament. If you go to other Parliaments, the use of ICT is so easy that Members are even able to interact with the key facilities in Parliament like Table Office through ICT platforms. They are able to see their committee reports online without much struggle. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: What I mean is the alignment of ICT to the work of Parliament. There is a missing gap. They have tried to provide computers in our offices, but in most cases, the internet is either slow or it is not there. So, it is not serving the purpose. There are many other things which I can elaborate. view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Going to the issue of facility management, I agree with Hon. Bunyasi that maybe, it is high time we engaged a professional facility manager to manage our facilities. You will find that in most of our facilities, areas such as sanitary areas, catering and many others are not properly and professionally managed. We also need to have a complaint management process in this Parliament. When Members have complaints, how are they handled? Where do they take them? In other jurisdictions, they have an elaborate process for complaint management so that the issues that Members have can be responded to in ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The other issue is the issue of library. Library is a central facility to an efficient Member of Parliament. The Committee needs to put a lot of emphasis in the library. If you go to other Parliaments, like we did recently when we had the opportunity to visit Parliament of German, the first thing you meet when you leave the Chamber is the library. In our Parliament, the first thing you meet when you leave the Chamber is the cafeteria. Why is it like that? The library should be the first facility to access so that Members can go there, ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of financial management. I have worked in the public sector for 10 years, but this is the first public institution where nothing happens in the cash office in the month of July. In fact, the cash office closes. They go home for leave and nothing happens. No committee can go for any retreat to do anything because they say that the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is not working or there is no money. This is unacceptable. Parliament cannot stop working because there is no IFMIS. I come from the IT background and I ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Lastly, Members have complained in committees and even in this plenary that whatever is reported in media sometimes is erroneous. My observation is that as Parliament we have invested in the media centre and every committee has a media person attached to it. What is missing in our media plan is strategic media communication. Even when you go for Press conferences, you sit before a red curtain. I do not know the meaning behind the red curtain. In the modern world, we need to be branding ourselves. We should sit in front of a parliamentary The electronic version of the ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: brand and not a red curtain that has no meaning to it. The messaging that comes out of our committees and plenary must be strategic messaging that is going to protect the integrity of Parliament. If we only focus on managing the media centre and we do not look at the bigger picture about strategic media communication, then something has to be done about it. view