Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. Cancer is a big challenge not only to this country but globally. As my colleague has said, cancer is one of the leading killers globally. In fact, it is the leading killer if you compare it to HIV. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying cancer kills more people than TB, HIV and Malaria combined. This is a big challenge to us as leaders in this country and as policy and law makers. One of the challenges we have in this country is that we come up with very good laws and policies but we are unable to implement them. We have legislation in place to manage issues to do with cancer; the National Cancer Control and Prevention Act. A lot of issues contained in this law have not been implemented. This is one issue that ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The other day, we called the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Industrialization to come and explain to us why the Steel Metal Act has not been implemented. This is a problem in the Government. Most Bills and Motions that have been passed here have not been implemented. What is contained in this Act and particularly the National Cancer Control Strategy 2012-2017, is very ambitious. It is talking about prevention, and all these strategies to counter cancer. The question is, why has it not been implemented? This is a serious question that we should be asking ourselves as parliamentarians. This ... view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I am member of this Committee. I am also an ICT expert in this area of cybercrime. As a Committee, we have tried our best to make some improvement to the initial Bill. We have already submitted our Report to the House. We have proposed a number of amendments which I am sure our Chairman will present to the House. We have just returned from an international summit –The World Summit on Information Society. This is a summit that brings together Government officials, Parliamentarians, ... view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: problem. As we are speaking, statistics indicate that globally, we lose about US$600 billion every year as a result of cybercrime. This is like 50 times the national revenue of Kenya. That alone explains to you how important the fight against cybercrime is. This Bill must be aligned to international best practice in the area of cybercrime. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where we visited recently with my three colleagues has identified five important benchmarks for having a good law in the area of cyber-security and cybercrime. The first benchmark is the legal measures in place. I am happy that, ... view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: mechanism on capacity building. That can be handled through the multi-agency organ that I have referred to. The fifth important benchmark is co-operation. This Bill talks about co-operation at the international level. We also have co-operation of the private sector and public partnership. That is one area over which we will be making recommendations for amendments. That is to make this Bill more enforceable. We have prepared a set of additional amendments which will be tabled. view
• 29 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for that appreciation. Together with my colleagues whom we travelled with to Geneva, we will introduce further amendments to improve this Bill. As I said, one important improvement is how to enforce and administer this Bill. Our suggestion is to have a multi-agency organ that will help us to do that. If you look at Standing Order No. 181, it talks about delegated powers. This Bill seems to be putting all the powers on the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT). Standing Order No.181 says the delegation of these powers must be very ... view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this important opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. Nearly 95 per cent of all the speakers today have been talking of the negatives that happen at KNH. Few of us have spoken about the successes of KNH. It was going to be important for the Committee to enlighten this House about some of the successes at KNH. This is important because maybe in those successes, we would learn one or two things that are being done at KNH that can ultimately improve its performance. Hon. Deputy Speaker, you are aware that ... view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: class experts? Is it because they have the right know-how? It is important. At the same time, it appears… view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Sorry, I thought I was commenting on the main Motion. I was looking at the Report and I thought there is nothing tangible in the recommendations that have been put forward. I sit on the Committee on Implementation as the vice-chair and one of the challenges we are facing is that some of the reports do not have tangible recommendations that we can follow up. I think this amendment will go a long way in improving the quality of this Report and giving us opportunity, those of us who sit on the Committee on Implementation, to make a quality follow-up ... view