Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: On a point of information, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 9 Apr 2025 in Senate: Now that Sen. Gloria is in the learning mood, I wish to inform her that you have powers under Standing Order No.1 to make a decision on matters not explicitly provided for in the Standing Orders like my case. In this particular case, I have pleaded my situation, as I was responding to a family emergency and arrived late after the debate had already started. Can you apply Standing Order No.1? view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to support this Motion. We must have a system of restraining county governments from hiring external law firms to represent them in courts. Last week, we were taken through a report by the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) that indicated that we have a serious fiduciary risk in our counties on the matter of external law firms that have charged our counties exorbitant amount of money. That is a problem because 22 counties, excluding Nairobi City County, are supposed to pay a whopping Kshs30.6 billion to law firms. Nairobi City County alone is supposed ... view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: If it was invested in infrastructure or any kind of development, it would do a lot more to the economies of our counties. I support Mr. Laban Omusundi on the fact that this matter has to be handled in some way. I disagree with the fact that we try and restrain counties seeking expert legal services outside their county attorney office. That would be against the Constitution; against the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, which provides that there must be competitive procurement where counties, for some reason, want to engage in competitive procurement. Madam Temporary Speaker, even as we say ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to comment on the Statement by Sen. Gloria regarding diaspora jobs. I wish that this Committee will conduct a more thorough investigation into the entire concept of diaspora employment. We have received numerous complaints from individuals about issues such as being unfairly excluded from shortlists or being asked to pay exorbitant fees to secure jobs abroad. These are serious concerns that must be addressed. While it is in our interest to ensure that many of our youth secure employment, whether locally or internationally, it is important we safeguard the youth against exploitation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, ... view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to also make my contribution to this very important Bill, The Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.10 of 2024). Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Bill is timely and long overdue. This is because it seeks to define in law that those who make regulations have up to 12 months to enact them when an Act of Parliament is passed. Statutory instruments are very important. They are the regulations which Ministries, the Executive or even Judiciary come up with to implement the provisions of the Act of Parliament that we pass. ... view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: to manage various issues. In the past, we have seen problems. This is because we pass laws, but we do not see any regulations formulated or enacted to implement various provisions of that law several years down the line. These statutory instruments have been misused in this country. This is because some of these statutory instruments have been formulated without following the law. We have seen some laws being developed, either in writing or in action, without the input of Parliament. That goes against Article 95(5) of the Constitution. That article states that no person or body, other than Parliament, ... view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: We know that the Statutory Instrument Act provides for a period of 10 years. After ten years, it must come back to Parliament and seek extension of that period. This is important because laws and environment change. When the laws change, the regulations should also change. For instance, we have regulations which were enacted before the Constitution of Kenya 2010. Those regulations need to be repealed so that they align to the new Constitution of Kenya 2010. So, the 10-year period of expiry is important. Recently, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we had about 1,700 pieces of regulations which had expired and ... view