Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Oct 2023 in Senate: I started by saying that there was a peace accord in September, 2020, between the governors of the lake region. One of the issues that they dealt with was the boundary clashes. That is why I was giving examples of areas where we have boundaries. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is unfair for Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Cherarkey to waste my time through frivolous points of order. view
• 5 Oct 2023 in Senate: Let them allow me to bring my point home, that we need a solution to this problem. view
• 5 Oct 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I made reference to that peace accord that was signed by governors of the lake region. As part of the solution, leaders need to go back to that agreement for that could be the basis. view
• 5 Oct 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when someone is absent from their county, they get problems like Sen. Cherarkey. I am present in my county and I know every corner of it. There were clashes in Aldai, near the boundary with Vihiga and Serem. Animals and houses were burnt. I want to go on record that this is the true position and I am ready to substantiate if asked to. We cannot be intimidated when we are contributing--- view
• 5 Oct 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am ready to substantiate any time you ask me to do so because this is the truth--- view
• 4 Oct 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very valid Petition in which the election law needs to be amended to allow only voters of a particular county to be nominated to the county assembly. That should not stop at the voters, they should also be a resident of that particular county. Whereas I support this, political parties use nomination as a reward for those who have worked for the parties. I encourage Kenyans to belong, participate and work for their political parties. We have scenarios where political parties get fewer slots of nomination yet they have so many people ... view
• 4 Oct 2023 in Senate: in this process to identify which areas of the law we need to amend. One area I recommend is the issue of allocation of nomination slots. We have left this to IEBC. The formula that was used to allocate slots to political parties is administrative. It is not in law. We need to put it into law so that we are very clear on the formula used to award slots to UDA. I know of a party that only got two slots and ended up getting two nominations in the county yet another got 10 slots, but had three nominations. ... view
• 4 Oct 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I started contributing to this Bill in the Morning. While contributing to it, I was talking about mineral royalties. I was concerned that there were no clear criteria in the allocation of these royalties. You find one region got close to Kshs2.5 billion and the Western region where I come from, got Kshs16,000. Bungoma, Busia and Vihiga counties got zero while Kakamega got Kshs16,000. This is happening and yet in our region, we see people prospecting and mining gold. We are concerned with the criteria that were used. The Bill is not very clear ... view
• 4 Oct 2023 in Senate: these Ministries could be allocating huge resources to their regions. We need to have clear a criteria, so that we have an equitable share of these resources. Even if the reason is that these counties have not exploited the mining, how will they do so without financial support? For example, if you give us money, which we have been pushing for, we will be able to mine huge volumes of granite in Kakamega and Vihiga counties. This is an issue that the Committee needs to look at. When we see Coast region getting Kshs2.5 billion and we know that the ... view
• 4 Oct 2023 in Senate: Sen. Mandago is my friend. He is also a seasoned politician and former Governor. Let him inform me. view