Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I second. view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to also make my valid comments on this Motion by the Senator for Narok, Sen. Olekina, on the important matter of pending bills in our counties. A few months back, the Auditor-General, Madam Nancy, was heavily quoted by various media houses trying to tell Kenyans that in accounting terms, there is nothing called pending bills. This is another invention by Kenyans. However, in accountancy, there is nothing called pending bills. It is a debt. What they are calling pending bills is a debt. She went ahead and questioned and said that ... view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you talk about pending bills, it means you have no budget control and performance in your county. Why do they pass budgets? Why do the MCAs sit there and approve budgets? Why are those budgets taken to the CoB and what does the CoB do with those budgets? These are serious questions that we should be asking ourselves since there are gaps in the process which lead to people not being paid. view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: I believe if the MCAs who approved this budget monitor the implementation of this budget and the CoB is able to look at the budget critically and approve requisitions view
• 2 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
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: that are made to her based on the budget that she has, we would not have this challenge of pending bills. view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: We have this problem of pending bills - Apart from corruption, we lack discipline in our system. I have sat in this House and every afternoon; I hear Members raising statements on the issue of pending bills. I have also raised a statement on pending bills in my county. They appear before the Committee on Finance and Budget and promise that they will do some things. However, when they go on the ground, the culture continues. The bad manners continue. view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: We have had people with historical pending bills all the way from 2014 to now. These are people who have delivered. They constructed hospitals and roads, but they are told they cannot be paid simply because one or two papers are missing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our county governments must be serious. I agree with the amendments proposed by the Mover of this Motion that one of the things we need to do is to insist on having a payment plan delivered to the CoB. The payment plan should give priority to historical pending bills so that you do not ... view
• 2 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
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: The CoB appeared before County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee and we directed her to prioritize the automation of our office. It has not been done. I am told because she has now realized there are some monkey games that go on between governors and her officers, she has now decided to go through her files herself. This has made our counties to continue suffering. Approvals are being delayed. We have raised an issue of diversion of funds, that there is a budget, she has a copy of the budget. Counties make requisitions to her. She looks at the ... view