Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 May 2024 in Senate: This means we are not able to protect the Member who has invested his or her time and resources in processing a Bill and instead we go to the Executive side. This really demoralizes that Member. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, going to the substance of this Bill, this Bill is long overdue. This is because we have been trying to deal with the issue of management of own-source revenue in our counties. We have been trying to deal with the issue of automation revenue systems in our counties. One time in this House, I questioned why our county governments do ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: defunct local authorities to perform well in revenue collection than the current county governments. There is also the issue of counties not being able to meet their revenue targets. They do budgets and most of them exaggerate their own-source revenue targets, but they do not meet them. This is a serious problem and this Bill helps to a large extent on how to deal with this challenge of managing own-source revenue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this Bill is very timely and I know discussions have been going on amongst the stakeholders on how to deal with this problem. We have ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: Secondly, the county treasury is just an entity in counties. This decision to come up with this system is a bigger decision that requires the input of the County Executive. So, we should not make it as a preserve of the county treasury. We need to say that the County Executive will be taking the lead in this. This is because a county treasurer is a junior member of the county. He reports to the Chief Officer and CEC, Finance and Economic Planning. Those are people who are supposed to make substantive decision regarding financial matters in the county. So, ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: I have heard the Deputy President say that they want to take over liquor licensing in counties. I want to tell him that he has better things to do. Leave counties to run their function. Liquor is a county function where some counties get their revenues. If you say you want to take it over because you want to run it better, yet the national Government has functions which they are not running better, who is going to run those functions for them? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE). We have a lot of ECDE related ... view
• 28 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am well guided. I was just saying that because we are talking about revenue. There are two levels of revenue: The shareable revenue and own source revenue. The shareable revenue may also affect the own resource revenue. County governments may want to invest in these systems, they need money. Anyway, we will leave that debate for another day. This is a wonderful Bill and I fully support it. I also encourage the Members of this House to support and fast-track it to become law with a few amendments that have been proposed by the Standing ... view
• 28 May 2024 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
• 23 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. This Statement is very important and very timely. It is talking about matters of heavy rains and flooding within the Great Lakes region. The issue of flooding has not just affected Kenya, but quite a number of countries have been affected. In fact, last year, we had a very serious problem in Malawi and Mozambique. I think this is a wake-up call that Africa needs to take matters of climate change very seriously because this flooding is one of the consequences of the climate change. So, African countries, Kenya included, need ... view
• 23 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Members are consulting loudly. view
• 23 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know Members are excited because Sen. Keroche is in Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and AZIMIO colours. So, I think they are excited about that. Welcome home, Sen. Keroche. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to wind up my contribution to this by saying that a humanitarian situation in some countries is wanting. Therefore, this forum should seek support from the global community in addressing the humanitarian situation arising from flooding and related risks. This statement from my friend Sen. Ali Roba is timely and I support it. He has been very vocal on matters of ... view
• 21 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the Members appointed to the Mediation Committee. I say that the task ahead is important as far as Article 96 of the Constitution is concerned. The National Assembly Members, whom I used to serve with, must understand that the most progressive thing that happened to this country since Independence is the promulgation of the new Constitution that provided for devolution. There is an attempt to fight devolution. Unfortunately, the National Assembly is the House that is being used to fight devolution. I listened to the deliberation of the National Assembly on this matter. I ... view