Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1181 to 1188 of 1188.

• 5 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I need your protection from Members on the other side. view
• 5 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to wind up my contribution, we had a lot of expectations when we went to listen to the President but some of us were disappointed. One of the expectations I had as a Senator representing the people of Vihiga was for the President to tell us more about the bottom-up economic model that they were talking about during the campaigns. How are we going to legislate and allocate money on the same? The President did not tell us anything about it. view
• 5 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, to wind up, my last point is that the President, in his Speech, recommended that Ministries should adjust their budgets to save Kshs300 billion in order to support the savings programme. We would like to know more about that. I am sure that the Budget will come to Parliament. We would like to know where he is going to get the money. Is he going to reduce peoples’ salaries and allowances? He was also contradictory because he talked about reducing the expenditure in Government, yet he gazetted additional State Departments. view
• 5 Oct 2022 in Senate: He proposed to have the so-called advisors to the Cabinet who will draw more money from the Exchequer. I find that to be contradictory. The Presidents’ Speech was contradictory and it fell short of the expectations of Kenyans. view
• 4 Oct 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The House Business Committee is a very crucial Committee in any House. I served in the House Business Committee of the National Assembly for four sessions and I know that nothing happens in the House until the House Business Committee is constituted and approved by the House. I remember on many occasions in the National Assembly, sometimes, we had to defeat the Motion on the House Business Committee because of one or two issues here and there. The membership of the House Business Committee from my experience in the National Assembly, which I think works ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have looked at the letter tabled by the Senate Minority Leader--- view
• 4 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, kindly protect me from the Senate Majority Leader. The letter was in soft copy. view
• 4 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a new matter which I would like to put across. view