Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: We visited Mombasa and saw it for ourselves. It was a sad moment to see all the raw sewage being drained into the sea for 10 years and nothing has been done about it. We will also be bringing a report on that. This is a serious issue, it can even affect our global positioning as a country. How can we allow this to happen under our watch? There are issues about management of water in our key county cities. We have a serious problem, with the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company. We have another serious problem in Mombasa and ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Company shares; not Gachagua shares. view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: You know, Sen. Cherarkey is a proponent of the impeached Deputy President. So, he wants to talk about shares all the time. It is company shareholding. We have made our contribution to get these water companies to work, and to work for the people of Kenya. I hope in our next review, where we will be looking at audit reports for the year ended June, 2022/2023 and June, 2023/2024, we will begin to see a lot of changes in the way the water companies are managed in this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in concluding, I wish to register my ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: It was not an easy thing. We spend hours interrogating governors and we also spend hours doing reports. I can also see two Members of my Committee are here, Sen. Miraj Abdullahi and Sen. Ledama Olekina. They put in effort to make sure that we process this report for the first time so as to table it here in the Senate. We will also be doing the same for the remaining financial years, and hopefully, through that interrogation and intense oversight into this report, we will begin to see better management of water resources in our counties. Mr. Temporary Speaker, ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to make my presentation on this very important Bill; the County Additional Allocation Bill, 2024. As you know, this Bill is supposed to allocate additional funds to counties apart from the shareable revenue which we allocate through other pieces of legislation. As the other Members have said, this Bill is designed to reduce the monies that this House had passed in the earlier Bill. They are reducing the money that we had passed to the industrial parks which was Kshs250 million for each county to Kshs105 million for each county. They are ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if there is any evidence that the National Assembly is the biggest threat to devolution in this country, this is one of them and something has to be done by us, Senators. We need to sit down, caucus and find out ways of stopping the National Assembly from being the real enemies of devolution in this country. If you reduce money that is supposed to go to counties in the Division of Revenue Bill from Kshs400 billion to Kshs380 billion yet you stay in that county, what will you be doing? Some of these Members of Parliament ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: from the ground breaking done by hon. Moses Kuria because there is no money. The money that is supposed to be given by the County Assembly has not been approved. The national Government has not sent any money. We were to get Kshs250 million, now it will be reduced further to Kshs105 million. This project is a wonderful idea, but I am worried that it will be a white elephant. We have Members of Parliament (MPs) who sit there, look at these projects, they do not see any sense, they reduce the money and then the projects fail to succeed. ... view
• 17 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be so quick. When the Deputy President was here, I remembered the saying of a famous philosopher, 19th Century, Lord Acton, who said, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. A few of us here served with the Deputy President in the National Assembly. He was a very humble, simple and social man. It was rare for him to talk. Mr. Speaker, Sir, listening to the charges and having seen what has been happening around, this is not the same man. This is a different man. Indeed, I agree with this ... view
• 17 Oct 2024 in Senate: brought here by his Counsel. That evidence of the coalition agreement of Kenya Kwanza was not sufficient and convincing. In fact, the Deputy President conveniently-- view
• 16 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have two clarifications. The first clarification to the counsel for the Deputy President is on the matter of the first charge on the issue of shareholding. Can the Counsel, based on Rule 10 of the Standing Orders, explain the specific relevance of the Kenya-Kwanza Coalition Agreement as a piece of evidence? My second question is to the Counsel for the National Assembly on the Ground Number 8, where it is alleged that the Deputy President, violated Section 132 of the Penal Code. So maybe we can be told a lot more about whether there ... view