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: should be paid by them and not the county government or the institution where the person heads. This will be a bigger pain to them. Most of them have been easily paying the Kshs500,000. If we enhance the fine to Kshs2 million, that will be a heavy burden to them. The cost of not appearing before the Senate or National Assembly will be higher. So, people will be compelled to appear before us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, although someone may argue that this Bill is too punitive, it provides that the process will be fair and the provisions of Article 50 ... view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my good brother, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, knows that even citizens have powers to arrest. That is why we have citizens’ arrests. However, in this case, I kindly ask him to read the Bill because it proposes that the Clerk or the Speaker may cause the arrest of these witnesses. It is in the Bill. He should read the Bill to get more details. The Powers and Privileges Act is an important instrument for this House because it helps us perform our duties. If we want to enhance the powers of this House, then we need to go ... 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: the ones who will arrest, but the institution of Parliament is going to do that under the Speaker or the Clerk as per the Act. I do not want to belabour this issue. All I want is to ask Members to support this Bill because it will make our work here productive because the current scenario is annoying, frustrating and demeaning to this House. Witnesses get invited and refuse to come. If the police do not take action, we are incapacitated and therefore we cannot do much. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and request my good friend, the ... view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for that opportunity. From the onset, I declare that I am going to oppose this Bill. I have had an opportunity as the Chair of the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee (CPISFC) to have audit review sessions with over 80 WSPs in this country. My Committee has done a wonderful job trying to deal with the challenges that we have noted. They are not just management challenges, but also others which if addressed, we will be able to sort out the problem we have had with the water provision in our 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: boards of those water companies to the county governments. This has had a great effect on the issue of the provision of water. One example is in a county where water service provision was being managed was in your county, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The other one was Murang’a County where cartels were running water companies without the involvement of county government. We have been able to take it back to the county government and made a raft of recommendations on how these water companies should run. When I read this Bill, all those efforts that we have made as ... 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: 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