Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 May 2024 in Senate: It would be a nice thing to pass this and give 50 per cent of the money to the counties immediately while the remaining balance is disbursed monthly. That would make sense in most counties. However, the situation is that if we have delayed disbursement of money to counties then you have created more problems. Money is misappropriated because of the challenges that come with the delay. view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: I support the Report and--- view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 29 May 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise on Standing Order No. 105 on Statement of fact. Sen. Cherarkey has stated that this is the “Azimio amendment” when we know that this Bill before us is a product of the NADCO and Azimio was just one of the parties. Is he in order? view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also make my comments on the Motion on proposed amendments to the Standing Orders of the Senate. The Standing Order No.267 provides that the committee’s procedure and rules may at any time propose amendments to the Standing Orders. This was important because we are living in a changing world and scenarios. We may have situations where we need to change our Standing Orders to align with the current realities we face as a House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fully support the amendment so that this House has an opportunity to debate ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is also the issue of ascertaining the quorum before a voice vote is taken. I have seen on many occasions in this House when sometimes we do not have quorum, a voice vote is put and a matter before us is passed. This amendment will allow this House not to get to a risky situation. Someone who is keen can take this Senate to court when we pass a law without sufficient quorum. I hold a contrary view on the issue of the implementation committee. I have read the Report by the Committee, but I am ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), whose role is to manage resolutions that are made in this House. Other parliaments have what we call monitoring and evaluation units that do that. We do not have that in this Parliament, yet that is the most important unit that this Parliament should have. We need a special unit whose role is to administratively deal with resolutions passed and undertakings made before this House and report back to this House. Maybe in that case, we may not need an implementation committee. However, in a scenario where we have no administrative unit or implementation committee to ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: volumes of documents. If we have Members of this Committee who are not committed, then we will not catch up. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not mean that my Members are not committed. My Members in the CPIC are very committed. That is why we have done so many reports. Still on the oversight committees is the issue of budgets. It is not fair that CPIC and CPAC have the same budget as other committees. These are Committees that deal with so many reports that require a lot of input and study. Therefore, they need to have adequate budgetary resources ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: do it, not just in this House, but even administratively within our system of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC)? How do we deal with the issue of implementing the resolution of the House which are quite diverse? They include the budgetary resolutions that we pass and undertakings that are made in this House and in Committees. How will they be followed up? That is very important. I support this Report. view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this very important opportunity to also make my contribution to this Bill, The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.40 of 2023), sponsored by Sen. Kibwana. I start by congratulating Sen. Kibwana for the excellent work she has done to bring this very important Bill to this House. She has demonstrated that she is a very committed and dedicated Member of this Senate, looking at the quality of the Bills that she has brought to this House. I remember Sen. Kibwana also sponsored the Digital Health Bill that came for the First ... view