Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: about 80 water companies in 47 counties. It is 80 because some counties have more than one water company depending on the vastness of that county. We have managed to process 80 water companies. This is just one of the Motions that we are going to do. We have about five Motions for different water companies. This is the first one that we are engaging. We have others that we will look at, but the story is the same. The key challenges is the ownership of these water companies. Nearly all these water companies were not directly owned by the ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: There are various reasons why we would have non-revenue water. One is the dilapidated infrastructure. Most of the water companies in the counties are relying on the old infrastructure. For example, in Nairobi City County, the water infrastructure that we have was set up by the colonial government many years back in 1905 and 1910. Surprisingly, successful governments have not taken the initiative to try and revamp this water infrastructure. This is why we have high non-revenue water in our counties. The other reasons are inaccurate metre reading and billing, illegal connections, and corruption. Though we are not discussing Nairobi ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Apart from poor record management, this is corruption because the authenticity of this document cannot be verified. Some of these documents are generated and cannot be relied on. That is a challenge that we had in this process. Further, various water service providers did not apply proper accounting practices and their financial reports contained numerous inaccuracies and errors and this resulted in inadequate reporting and non-presentation of the actual accurate position of their financial operation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for example, to date, we have not concluded on Wajir County because the reports have high inaccuracies or errors and they ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: we have given a lengthy chapter on the observations for each water company and the recommendations that we have made for each company. The General Observation and Recommendations contained in this report are as follows - We have made recommendations and observations on the issue of high non- revenue water, poor bookkeeping preparation and accuracy of financial statement, non- compliance to reporting standards and accuracy of the financial statement, non- compliance to the law on ethnic inclusivity, material uncertainty to going concern - this was a common query - non-remittance of statutory deductions where these companies deduct money from staff ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: We also had an opportunity to visit the Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company and we will be reporting on this; where raw sewage is drained into the sea. That has been happening for 10 years. All the sewage in Mombasa is drained into the sea. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know I can get more information from Sen. Faki after I have moved. view
• 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