Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, is it right for my friend, Sen. Cherarkey, to claim that it is bad for people to smile before party leaders? Does it imply that people are supposed to cry before the party leader? view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to also make my contribution to this important Bill—the Election (Amendment) (No.2) Bill, No.29 of 2024. That is a product of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) process. I am happy that this House has already dispensed with the Political Parties Act, which is now supposed to go to a Committee of the Whole House. Now, we are handling the Election Amendments Bill. I want to support the provisions in this Bill, although I have reservations about a few others. Let me start by looking at Clause 3, which states that people ... view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: what is happening in the country, because without an IEBC, we run a major constitutional risk. I am surprised that even a mere decision of coming up with a selection committee; people who will serve maybe for three months has dragged in court. Even after the court made a decision on that, some other people rushed to court. Why are the courts entertaining all this? They need to take judicial notice of what is happening to the country and of the fact that the un-availability of IEBC is a serious, problem and risk that can lead to a constitutional crisis. ... view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: electoral agency is performing its role and doing its work transparently, in an accountable manner, there should not be any burden on candidates to have agents in polling station. That should be the role of the Electoral Commission. The idea of having agents in polling station to verify the results is a clear confirmation that our electoral system has something wrong, and that clearly puts a lot of pressure on the candidates. You can imagine, if you are a presidential candidate in this country with about 45,000 polling stations, putting two people in each polling station. That is translates to ... view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: It goes on under Section 46, which has also been repealed, to deal with all the conditions of recall under Section 45 and 46. Clause 28, seeks to repeal Section 74 of the Act, to provide that disputes during nomination will be the mandate of political parties' tribunal and not IEBC. During the elections we have seen that on one hand, the tribunal is dealing with matters of dispute in political parties. On the other hand, IEBC is doing the same. That is not the work of IEBC. This amendment will ensure that only political parties' tribunal will handle disputes ... view
• 13 Nov 2024 in Senate: problem. There is also the cost of elections which must be looked at and the matter of transparency in elections. I support this Bill except for the declaration of the results by the IEBC Chairperson. I believe that if we want to heal the problem of the Cherera 4, we must insist that the declaration of results by the IEBC Chairperson must be after concurrence with the other commissioners. view
• 12 Nov 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to start by saying that I fully support these long overdue amendments to the county public finance laws that will give the county assemblies autonomy. County assemblies play a very important role in primary oversight. Currently, they are experiencing a lot of challenges in performing their mandate due to lack of financial autonomy. This Bill by the Deputy Speaker, who is also the Senator for Meru County, is timely because our county assemblies will have some level of financial independence. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. ... view
• 12 Nov 2024 in Senate: Currently, they depend on the county executive for their funding yet there are multiple delays. The first is occasioned by the National Treasury which delays to release funds to the counties. The county executive further creates a delay which hampers the performance of the county assemblies. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if there are elected people in this country who suffer a lot then it is the MCAs. They stay in the villages with the people, wake up in the morning with the people and go to sleep with them. We are lucky, as Senators and Members of the National Assembly, because ... view
• 12 Nov 2024 in Senate: I do not know whether the proposer of this Bill has checked on Clause 11, which says- “Financial reports shall be submitted to the Commission on Revenue Allocation with a copy to the Controller of Budget.” Maybe it wanted to refer to the office of the Auditor-General (OAG) because I do not see the role of the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) in this case. Matters of financial reports are handled by the OAG. Maybe, the Deputy Speaker, you can look at that. That, to me, seems to be an error. If we go to the issue of disbursement contained ... view