Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to comment on the statement by Senator for Kisumu, Sen. Ojienda, on the extension of the Standard Gauge Railway to Kisumu. He has raised very fundamental issues as far as this project is concerned. I am aware that some public participation has already been conducted even in my county as far as the SGR project is concerned and part of the plan is to extend this SGR all the way to Malaba. I would like to raise a concern because the preliminary plans that are there indicate that this SGR will not pass through Luanda-Maseno-Lela-Luanda ... view
• 13 Mar 2025 in Senate: of the project will be higher. It will mean that you will have to compensate the land owners along the route and yet we already have railway land, all the way from Kisumu to Luanda. I wonder why the Kenya Railways has decided to avoid that route and they are using alternative routes, which effectively means that the Kisumu-Luanda portion will be left out of this project. That does not make any economic sense to us, as leaders in that region. We therefore would like to not only know about the feasibility studies, but we would like the Committee to ... view
• 13 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is already showing signs of high costs, because clearly, the plans the planners of this SGR have in mind is to try and divert the railway line to areas where they can have land negotiated and bought, leaving out areas which already have land, like the patch between Lela, Maseno and Luanda. I fully support this Statement. When this matter was brought to my attention, I opposed it and said it was not fair to exclude the Vihiga area, particularly Luanda, from this project. I support this Statement by Sen. (Prof) Tom Ojienda, my neighbour, who ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also make my contribution to the County Library Services Bill (Senate Bills No.40 of 2024). From the onset, I support this Bill. However, I will also express my reservations which can lead to amendments to this Bill. As you know, library services is one of the services that are devolved and as Sen. Kinyua has said, our counties should not wait for a legislation like this one, for them to start having libraries in their counties. They need to have developed library services in all the 47 counties. Mr. Temporary ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have a serious problem in Kenya. We are deteriorating as a nation in terms of a reading culture. Most of our youth do not read books anymore. Even our adults do not read books anymore. If you ask someone how many books he or she has read in a month, you will realize that they only read the newspaper, WhatsApp, or on internet. You will realize that they do not read books. That is not a good culture for the future of this country. If we have these library services across the country, perhaps it ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: I am also very uncomfortable with the idea of having a county library services development committee in each county. We are fighting our counties because of the high wage bill. Every county has surpassed their wage bill limit of 35 percent. Most are even beyond 80 percent because of the expenditure on employees and people which is a recurring expenditure. If we develop our laws, and in those laws, we call for the establishment of committees with a secretariat, we are simply ballooning the wage bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our role is to oversight these counties so as to ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: I am happy that some people have called me today and have told me that I was too harsh on them, but sometimes it is important for us to say the truth about these things. We need to see progress. For example, if we want to digitalize these libraries, we need to ensure there is infrastructural growth in the counties. Terrestrial technology in terms of communication must be expanded. Fiber optics, the so-called superhighway, should also be expanded so that technology is available because these libraries are going to be based on technology. Therefore, something has to be done. Mr. ... view
• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a lot has been said about systems. For example, there is a Statement on the issue of migration of Inua Jamii to E-Citizen platform. You have also heard clearly Sen. Sifuna raising a matter on the SHA system. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the biggest problems in this country is that we have laws, which we do not implement. I am talking as an Information Technology (IT) expert and one of the people who worked so hard to bring in place the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act. In that law, it is very clear that ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This matter of immigrant workers to the Middle East has been an issue that has come to the two Houses many times. Every 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
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: time we get answers, they are not satisfactory. The Hon. Cabinet Secretary has this morning misled this House that no death has been reported in recent times. I want to put to him that a 28-year-old lady by the name of Elizabeth Chausi from Shamakhokho Ward, Passport No.AK1179924, was murdered in Saudi Arabia. This was widely reported in the media. Is he aware? This is to the extent that his Ministry is not even listening to the media. Where is the embassy? Why has the embassy not been informed about this death? This is a very sad case because this ... view