Godfrey Osotsi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have a lot of respect for my colleague, Hon. Sankok. He is one of the good debaters in this House. However, our Standing Orders are very clear on the rule of relevance, especially when a Member is seconding debate on a Bill moved by another Member. You need to be relevant. You need to stick to the facts around that Bill and stop discussing issues which have no direct correlation with what is being discussed. Is Hon. Sankok in order to digress to issues that have no relevance to the Bill before the House? view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this very important opportunity to also contribute to this Pensions (Amendment) Bill by Hon. Didmus Barasa. I want to start by thanking Hon. Didmus for having this very important thought because pensioners are suffering in this country. As you know, the purpose of pension is to sustain a person who has retired and to maintain their standards of living after employment. However, in this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: country, as you are aware, pensioners go through a lot. It has been pointed out by some Members that pensioners are suffering from depression and mental health because of delays in payment of their pension. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have listened to many Questions from Members in this House raising the issues of delayed pension for their constituents. I have encountered many cases of old people who retired and have not been paid pension for many years, even in my own county. Some of them are not even able to pay for their drugs and some live in abject ... view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: This Bill, as pointed out by the Mover, is going to ensure effective planning of pensions. I agree with that because pensions’ schemes will have to plan to make sure that within 90 days upon retirement or upon one reaching pension payment time, pension will be paid. The second thing this Bill will do is to make it very attractive for people to retire. We see people reaching retirement age but still want to be retained. They look for extension of their contracts while others compete with young people in employment. But if we make it attractive for people to ... view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: This Bill is also going to make sure that statutory payments of pensions are made. That is another problem. Employers deduct money but do not remit it to pension schemes. We will ensure we have discipline around pension schemes. We have many cases of retirees and pensioners who have not been paid their money. We remember the case of Teleposta Pensioners. People were retrenched but up to date they have not been paid their pension. What the pension schemes do is to use courts to frustrate pensioners. They go to court and block the whole process and create more misery ... view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: We are aware that in this Parliament in the current financial year, we appropriated money to the National Treasury to purchase the pension management system. We hope that if the system is purchased and implemented we are not going to have cases of files being stolen or a file being lost and pensioners will get their money in time. So, this Bill will put pension schemes and Government on their toes and ensure that our old people, men and women in the villages live decent lives because they will get their pension on time. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: We also have to interrogate the role of stakeholders in the pension industry. For example, the Controller of Budget has a role in the whole process of payment of pension. We have to interrogate the role of the Retirement Benefits Authority. As our people suffer, what do these institutions do so that our people do not continue suffering? We did not have to wait for Hon. Didmus Barasa to bring an amendment for us to know that we need to take payment of pension seriously. This is a clear signal to the institutions which are involved in pension management and ... view
• 10 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to ask Question 421 of 2021. This question is directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy. It reads: (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain why Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited is operating without insurance of critical assets under Public Liability (with Consequential Loss) insurance cover, and Fire and Perils cover for 122 substations distributed across the country, thereby exposing strategic public installations worth over Ksh37 billion and employees to major risks in case of accidents? (ii) Under what circumstances was the procurement of the two insurance contracts contained in Tender No.? ... view
• 7 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: (Nominated, ANC) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to comment on a Petition by Hon. Atandi on the issue of Spire bank and Mwalimu Sacco. This is a very serious matter because the whole transaction sounds fraudulent. The Committee should go deeper into this matter so that anyone who may have been involved in an activity to defraud the teachers of this country is made to pay for it. The Committee has a major task to do on behalf of the teachers of this country. The CBK has queries to answer on that transaction, because it was done within a ... view