Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am talking about facts and the truth will set me free. I am ready to substantiate. It is common knowledge that Sen. Mandago was the then governor of Uasin Gishu and together with the then Senator, participated in ejecting Prof. Laban Ayiro from Moi University. view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: I am ready to substantiate next week. I would like Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to inform me. view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations regarding the operations of Vihiga County Public Service Board. Regulation No.25(1)(b) of the Public Finance Management (PFM) County Government Regulation 2015 caps county government expenditure on wages and benefits at 35 per cent of the total county revenue. The Auditor-General's Report on the Vihiga County Executive for the years ended 30th June 2021 and 2021/2022 raised concerns about the over-expenditure on wages by the Vihiga County government. These wage payments were processed through both the ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: (2) Provide a breakdown of individuals who have been converted from contract terms to permanent and pensionable status, stating whether the due process was followed in each case. (3) Provide the needs assessment reports, job advertisements, interview analysis sheets, employment agreements or contracts, and all related documentation for the officers employed from the Financial Year 2021/2022, to date. (4) Explain the reasons for the continued over-employment by the County Public Service Board despite consents raised in the Auditor-General's report and the Controller of Budget (CoB) reports about over-expenditure on wages and salaries. (5) Provide copies of resolutions from the County ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have not yet received the notes from the Clerk. She is on the way coming. Nevertheless, I understand this Motion very well so I will proceed. I beg to move- THAT, the Senate adopts the Reports of the Select Committee on County Public Investments and Special Funds on its consideration of the Audit Reports for the year ended 30th June, 2019, 30th June, 2020 and 30th June, 2021 of the following water and sewerage service providers– (1) Amatsi Water Services Company Limited - Vihiga County; (2) Bomet Water Company Limited - Bomet County; (3) Gusii ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: about 80 water companies in 47 counties. It is 80 because some counties have more than one water company depending on the vastness of that county. We have managed to process 80 water companies. This is just one of the Motions that we are going to do. We have about five Motions for different water companies. This is the first one that we are engaging. We have others that we will look at, but the story is the same. The key challenges is the ownership of these water companies. Nearly all these water companies were not directly owned by the ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: There are various reasons why we would have non-revenue water. One is the dilapidated infrastructure. Most of the water companies in the counties are relying on the old infrastructure. For example, in Nairobi City County, the water infrastructure that we have was set up by the colonial government many years back in 1905 and 1910. Surprisingly, successful governments have not taken the initiative to try and revamp this water infrastructure. This is why we have high non-revenue water in our counties. The other reasons are inaccurate metre reading and billing, illegal connections, and corruption. Though we are not discussing Nairobi ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Apart from poor record management, this is corruption because the authenticity of this document cannot be verified. Some of these documents are generated and cannot be relied on. That is a challenge that we had in this process. Further, various water service providers did not apply proper accounting practices and their financial reports contained numerous inaccuracies and errors and this resulted in inadequate reporting and non-presentation of the actual accurate position of their financial operation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for example, to date, we have not concluded on Wajir County because the reports have high inaccuracies or errors and they ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: we have given a lengthy chapter on the observations for each water company and the recommendations that we have made for each company. The General Observation and Recommendations contained in this report are as follows - We have made recommendations and observations on the issue of high non- revenue water, poor bookkeeping preparation and accuracy of financial statement, non- compliance to reporting standards and accuracy of the financial statement, non- compliance to the law on ethnic inclusivity, material uncertainty to going concern - this was a common query - non-remittance of statutory deductions where these companies deduct money from staff ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: We also had an opportunity to visit the Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company and we will be reporting on this; where raw sewage is drained into the sea. That has been happening for 10 years. All the sewage in Mombasa is drained into the sea. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know I can get more information from Sen. Faki after I have moved. view