Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just give me two minutes, and I will finish. view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Continuous resourcing of funds has been adversely affected by the delays in Exchequer releases to counties. To address all these issues, the committee has given specific directions in an interim manner as mitigating measures - (i) The governors should ensure pieces of legislation that are inadequate are established through the support of the county assembly. (ii) That the governors, through the CEC for finance, ensure that internal control measures are put in place to address the gaps that we noted. (iii) Governors must ensure appropriate technologies are deployed to curb incidents of multiple allocations, ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Continuous resourcing of funds has been adversely affected by the delays in Exchequer releases to counties. To address all these issues, the committee has given specific directions in an interim manner as mitigating measures - (i) The governors should ensure pieces of legislation that are inadequate are established through the support of the county assembly. (ii) That the governors, through the CEC for finance, ensure that internal control measures are put in place to address the gaps that we noted. (iii) Governors must ensure appropriate technologies are deployed to curb incidents of multiple allocations, ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the committee observed that there is an apparent wastage and misappropriation of public resources in counties. We, therefore, 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
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the committee observed that there is an apparent wastage and misappropriation of public resources in counties. We, therefore, 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
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: implore the individual Senators to enhance the oversight role through the oversight facilitation. I wish to implore the House and the committees to hold governors to account for public resources under their control, noting that governors are the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of counties as per Article 179 of the Constitution. With this, I submit this report on behalf of the Committee on Public Investment and Special Funds. view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: implore the individual Senators to enhance the oversight role through the oversight facilitation. I wish to implore the House and the committees to hold governors to account for public resources under their control, noting that governors are the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of counties as per Article 179 of the Constitution. With this, I submit this report on behalf of the Committee on Public Investment and Special Funds. view
• 25 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to make my valid contributions on the Division of Revenue Bill, 2024. From the onset, I support it, but with amendments that the committee is proposing that the shareable revenue to the counties be Kshs415.9 billion. We cannot be seen to be going against our word. In this House, we passed the BPS and said we would like the share of the counties to be Kshs415.9 billion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is a surprise that the National Assembly has said Kshs391 billion. We are in this House to represent our ... view
• 25 Apr 2024 in Senate: If the national Government wants to finance programmes in our counties, particularly for devolved functions, they should send that money to the counties and not pretend that they are funding 50 per cent and the counties fund 50 per cent. That is a deliberate way of gradually taking over some of the devolved functions from our counties to the national Government. We have even seen suggestions on the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE); that the national Government will run the ECDE better and they should help counties in running it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in future, even this Division of ... view
• 25 Apr 2024 in Senate: get money for roads, National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) and many other allocations. The work of Senators is to basically push for more money for our counties. I, therefore, fully support the report by the Committee on Finance and Budget which is chaired by Sen. Ali Roba and other strong Members, like my neighbour, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. It also has my Member in the County Public Investments Committee and Special Funds (CPICSF), Sen. Tabitha. These are people who have stood firm. They should continue standing firm with the rest of us. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this time round, we ... view