Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

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• 30 May 2024 in Senate: 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
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity again to make my voice heard on the IEBC Amendment Bill. We must commend the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) team for coming up with this Bill. I join my colleague, Sen. Wambua to say that this is a product of bipartisan negotiations between the Azimio la Umoja Coalition of Kenya and the Kenya Kwanza Coalition. A number of the proposals contained in this Bill are going to address some of the challenges that we have had in this country in election management. I also think a lot needs to be done to ... view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: How I wish that we had at least one Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) expert sitting on this selection panel. Apart from accounting knowledge, we have also proposed that the chairperson of the Commission must have ICT experience and knowledge. Yes, accounting knowledge is taken care of by ICPAK, however, no one in that panel is adequately experienced and knowledgeable on matters of ICT to help us get the right Commissioner with ICT knowledge. This is very critical in election management. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know how that proposal to have PSC cater for the budget of the ... view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: adequate information that helped us to execute our matter in the Supreme Court. However, due to that mysterious amendment in 2022, it was not possible. That is why a lot of questions arose around the use of technology. Political parties and all stakeholders must be involved in the process of adoption of technology from procurement, installation, testing and implementation. They must be involved from day one to the last day of the election until the results are declared to the nation. I propose that, we need to revisit that Section 44(8) of the Election Act and ensure that it is ... view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: unconstitutional because the Senate cannot be left out of a serious matter of delimitation of constituencies. I do not know where Sen. Omogeni was because he was a Member of the NADCO. We respect him as a senior council in this country. However, it is unfortunate that a mistake of this high magnitude was made without our representation noticing that the National Assembly should not have unilateral powers on matters of delimitation of boundaries of constituencies without involvement of the Senate. Madam Temporary Speaker, those are the few issues I wanted to raise about this Bill. The NADCO spirit must ... view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also give my views on the mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. I congratulate the team that was in the Mediation Committee with the National Assembly for the good work they have done. To argue for Kshs400 billion--- view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. He is my neighbour; he can inform me. view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I started by congratulating the team on agreeing on Kshs400 billion, which really translates to an extra Kshs15 billion. Last year, we passed Kshs385 billion, and now we can say that since this Senate, we have passed an additional Kshs30 billion to our counties. That is a huge amount of money. If you did simple arithmetic, it would mean that each of the 47 counties has got Kshs638 million since we came here. view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also agree with the Committee resolution that we shall now push this to Kshs500 billion. I hope that happens because when we get in there, we shall have this tussle. Again, if you do simple arithmetic on the Kshs3.9 trillion that the national Government wants to put in the budget it sums up to Kshs585 billion, which is Kshs185 billion more than we are approving today. We look forward to the money going to our counties and being used well to provide services and development to our people. view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: However, as we pass this, we must also deal with the problem of late disbursement of funds to counties. This is chocking our counties. If we have a three or four-month delay, it affects the planning and exposes the money to corruption and other challenges in our counties. I would wish that the committees involved such as the one led by my neighbour Sen. Abass together with the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget can look into this issue of delayed fund disbursement. view