Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

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• 14 Feb 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 Services,Senate. view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Are we going to sit here as a Senate to approve this fraud? Of course not! Article 96 of the Constitution empowers us to protect counties. I want to implore my colleagues. If we pass this Bill here today, we will be saying that this country does not need the Senate. We better go home. view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: If we can allow ourselves to pass this Bill that is the verdict the people of Kenya are going to say about us. The issue of bulk water supply cannot be a national government function only. Allow the counties to develop capacities to do bulk water supply. However, this Bill simply limits that to the National Government by giving that to the regional waterworks authorities and storage water authorities. When you talk about privatization, we all support it. However, we must know that PPP are not cheap. They are very expensive. What we are going to see is a scenario ... view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Allow the Committee that was doing this work to bring a report to this House. Read it through, see the challenges and look at the solutions, then we can discuss this Bill. I am sure that you are going to appreciate that this Bill is the worst that I have ever seen since I started working as a Member of Parliament (MP). view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: It will not just take water provision to the national Government, but it will create worse problems in the water sector. When you say that the regulation of water has been done by these WASREB and we have had problems with it. This is because it is regulating water, but it is a national body which is financed by water service providers which are in counties. They do not receive any budget from the Exchequer. They do not receive any Exchequer from the national Government, but they are financed by the water service providers which are based in the counties. ... view
• 14 Feb 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 Services,Senate. view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: We have relook at these things in totality and make the right decision. I believe it is the total rejection of this Bill. view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: We are not talking politics here my colleagues from the other side. It is not politics. On this one, every Senator here regardless of which political party brought you to this House, has a role to protect devolution. Secondly, we do not want to be part of the mess that the Senate passed this Bill which has created more mess in the water sector than resolving the problems. Allow us to go and handle the engagement with the CoG and do a report which we will bring to this House. Hon. Members can go through it. It will be the ... view
• 13 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion from the onset. The Senators who have been nominated to sit in this Committee are people who did a good job in the First Session. I am sure they will do a better job in this Session. The SBC is a very important Committee to this House because it is the front end to the Plenary where we sit. I encourage the SBC to prioritise matters which are key to the functioning of this Senate. In the last Session, I was disappointed that this House took too long to process the County Governments ... view
• 7 Dec 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I wish to comment on the two statements by Sen. Oketch Gicheru and Sen. Munyi Mundigi. I will start with the Statement by Sen. Munyi Mundigi on centralised procurement of school learning materials. This is a very crucial statement because right now, there are challenges on the change of policy to centrally procure learning materials. I have received complaints from head teachers in my county that some schools have received books that they do not need. For example, a school that does not teach Islamic studies is being given books on Islamic ... view