Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 May 2024 in Senate: This is another conversation that we must discuss in this House because I do not want to go home, and then I am confronted by county employees asking me why they have not been paid their salaries, and yet I have passed the disbursement schedule. The executive should stick to that. The Motion I am bringing here next week is to say that the schedule has to be respected. If there is any variation delaying disbursement, we do not want to hear 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: rumours outside there. The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning must appear in this House to tell us why he has delayed to send money to the counties. That is the only way we will get these people to send money to the counties in time. One of the pending bills in counties is pension and statutory deduction like NSSF. We have done a report that counties owe pensioners in excess of Kshs80 billion and it has been adopted in this House, yet someone is playing monkey games with it. We said that we want the Cabinet ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the CPIC, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.56(1)(b) to make a Statement on the activities of the committee for the period commencing 1st January to 15th April 2024. During the period under review, the committee had a total of 25 meetings within and outside the precints of Parliament to consider matters within its mandate. The meetings that we did include- (1) The regular meetings to consider the reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of special funds in counties for the financial years 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022. Mr. Temporary ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the CPIC, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.56(1)(b) to make a Statement on the activities of the committee for the period commencing 1st January to 15th April 2024. During the period under review, the committee had a total of 25 meetings within and outside the precints of Parliament to consider matters within its mandate. The meetings that we did include- (1) The regular meetings to consider the reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of special funds in counties for the financial years 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022. Mr. Temporary ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: (1) Most funds were established based on regulations drawn from the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012, which is a national legislation, raising concerns on the legality and effectiveness of the offices of the county attorneys. You can only generate regulations on national legislation if you are the Cabinet Secretary. Counties have no powers to generate regulations on a national legislation on their own. We noted that several counties have come up with regulations to manage Funds based on the PFM Act. We have had to give directions to the counties to regularize that and have a correct set of ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: (1) Most funds were established based on regulations drawn from the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012, which is a national legislation, raising concerns on the legality and effectiveness of the offices of the county attorneys. You can only generate regulations on national legislation if you are the Cabinet Secretary. Counties have no powers to generate regulations on a national legislation on their own. We noted that several counties have come up with regulations to manage Funds based on the PFM Act. We have had to give directions to the counties to regularize that and have a correct set of ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: scenario where the County Executive inverts a fund, takes money away, borrows the money or money is borrowed from one fund to another. We saw a lot of that in most counties and this is un-procedural and another way of confirming that budget control and performance in most counties is very weak. The other observation is a high number of funds established by counties, limiting their oversight and capacity of counties to fund them and consuming a considerable amount of resources on administrative costs. That is money that could have been used for other meaningful purposes. For example, Baringo County ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: scenario where the County Executive inverts a fund, takes money away, borrows the money or money is borrowed from one fund to another. We saw a lot of that in most counties and this is un-procedural and another way of confirming that budget control and performance in most counties is very weak. The other observation is a high number of funds established by counties, limiting their oversight and capacity of counties to fund them and consuming a considerable amount of resources on administrative costs. That is money that could have been used for other meaningful purposes. For example, Baringo County ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just give me two minutes, and I will finish. view