Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2024 in Senate: Sen. (Dr.) Murango is coming from the cooperative field. He is a very serious Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and has more information. Let him inform me. view
• 25 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you for that information. I have not had an opportunity to look at it, but these are the upcoming issues. We process some Bills here and the National Assembly processes similar Bills. Then what happens? I think the Senate should work very closely with the National Assembly, so that the Bills that we bring here, do not appear as if they are in conflict with the Bills or similar Bills to the ones in the National Assembly. My view is that we need a total overhaul of the parent Act, that is the Cooperative Society Act,1997. This Bill has ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to make a comment on the statement by the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Education on the matter of the current study that they are doing on ECDE to come up with a uniform scheme of service for the ECDEs. This would be one of the greatest achievements of this Senate if this matter was prioritised because we have a crisis in the management of ECDE in our counties. It is high time that the Standing Committee on Education finalised this report brought to this House, so that we can pass it and ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, one of the most fundamental things that this House has to do is abolish all the bursary funds that we have in our counties. Let people get bursaries from the NG-CDF or from the Ministry of Education. Let the counties focus on devolved function. That is the ECDEs ---- view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: He can inform me because he is a Member of my committee and we have been dealing with the bursary funds. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Sen. Oketch Gicheru. view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the scheme of service is one thing, but there are other challenges that face ECDE management in our counties, including provision of appropriate environment for learning, for example, classrooms and sanitary areas as they are not there in most of our ECDEs. It is a comprehensive matter. Capacity issues around the ECDEs are largely caused by low financing of these ECDE programmes in our counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will be important for us to review the way the counties spend their money on education. It is an illegal and this has been going on ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also make my contribution to this Bill. I fully agree with my colleagues who have spoken before me that passing this Bill in the form it is in is actually taking away our powers as Senate. Article 96 of the Constitution gives us the powers to protect our counties and their governments. This particular amendment threatens Article 96 of the Constitution because it means that the national Government will vary the equitable share within the fiscal year without making reference to Parliament, particularly the Senate. I join my colleagues who ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: more money, we must be very clear. The money that we are giving our counties must be accounted for and well utilised. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we continue seeing a lot of issues as has been Auditor- General (AG) and the CoB, are not giving hope to the protectors of devolution, in this case the Senate. We would like to push for more money. However, at the same time, we want to see this money changing lives and being utilised well. We want to see corruption in our county ending. If I approve this - I know my county will ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: with clear amounts of money and clear dates of when money should go to the counties. What then happens in the National Treasury? Junior officers in National Treasury discard all that and determine when to send money and how much. Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we are talking now, counties received the July disbursement just yesterday. They have not yet received the August and September disbursements. This is unacceptable. How do you even plan with this kind of disbursement? I think we have a gap somewhere in this House. Whenever we have a delay in disbursement of funds to the ... view