Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Well, I sympathise with my colleague for that condition. No one knows the exact causes of cancer. There are a lot of speculations here and there. Even cancer aside, exercise is very important for your own physical and mental health. When it comes to youth activities, we always complain that we do not have funds, but this country has a lot of money and it can invest in the youth. In this Budget, we have allocated over Kshs30 billion to go to social safety net, which is for the older people. How I wish part of this money could be ... view
• 20 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: modern stadium. If every county had that kind of stadium, we would easily host big tournaments like the Africa Cup of Nations. It is a shame that this country is one of the biggest economies in Africa but we have never hosted the Cup of Nations, a tournament that comes with benefits. It is because we have not taken sports seriously. This House should pass this Motion and we should follow up through the Committee on Implementation so that we ensure that this programme is rolled out across the country as soon as possible. The negative effects on our youth ... view
• 20 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I support this Bill, but I have a few issues to raise. The first is, it is a good idea to exempt first-time house owners from paying stamp duty, but again this Bill needs to define who a first-time owner is. If it is not properly defined, it is possible that this provision can be misused so that even people who owned houses before could still benefit from this provision. Whereas it is a good thing to provide tax exempt to the first-time home ... view
• 20 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: to get this property. We know in this country the process of valuation, especially for stamp duty, is very lengthy. The Stamp Duty Act under section 10(a) provides that only the Chief Government Valuer or his officers who I am told are not more than 44 are allowed to do valuation for stamp duty. We have so many other highly qualified private valuers out there. This section of the law should be amended so that this new provision of exempting first-time house owners from stamp duty can make sense. Otherwise it is going to take long, especially with the expected ... view
• 20 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: The exception of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) from taxation is also a matter that needs to be looked at. Many homes are using LPG for their energy and the moment we tax LPG highly, it means we will still continue having challenges with our environment because people will revert back to Kerosene, which is not environmental friendly. We need to support the use of clean energy by ensuring that the taxation on LPG remains as it is now. view
• 20 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support this Bill. view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Nominated, ANC view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Nominated, ANC view
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to move the Adjournment Motion on a definite matter of urgent national importance to the crisis in the sugar industry in Kenya. 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
• 19 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, matters concerning the sugar industry have been discussed in this House many times. We cannot even count how many times that has been done. We know the problems in the sugar industry and the solutions to the problems in the sugar industry. However, why do we still have problems in the sugar industry? The problem in the sugar industry is cartels and the solution is to deal with those cartels. view