Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Feb 2025 in Senate: I wish to request the House now that we passed the Motion on cattle rustling, we need to follow up and ensure that the recommendations that we passed in this House are implemented by the Government. I wish to thank the Members who have expressed their love for our colleague and add that we also need to stand with the family at this critical time. We also need to think about how well we should honour our departed colleagues. The Senate Majority Leader has given some insights into that. I think it is something that the Secretariat can look at, ... view
• 12 Feb 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to make a quick comment on the Statements by the Nairobi Senator, Sen. Sifuna, on the CHPs. I think that this is a very serious Statement. I request the Committee that is going to deal with this Statement to take it very seriously. The CHPs are doing a very good job in our villages. These are people in our villages who know almost every homestead in a particular village. They know the concerns of the people on matters of health. However, these people despite their commitment, are getting frustrated by various counties in this ... view
• 12 Feb 2025 in Senate: think the Committee should look at this matter very critically and report to this House, so that these CHPs who are doing a wonderful job in our villages, can be motivated to do even greater things. They can also be involved even in this process of registering people to join SHA which in most places we are having challenges. I think now that we have come back from recess, this is one Statement that we need to take seriously and have the report brought to this House as soon as possible, so that these challenges that we continue to face ... view
• 11 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I fully support this Motion because the Members proposed here will deliver the mandate of the SBC. Therefore, we should all support them because without the SBC, we cannot have our agenda processed for this Plenary. I also request that the Members in this Committee must understand that this is one of the most crucial committees that processes agenda and discusses the Calendar of this House. Therefore, they must put in extra effort to ensure that they do the right job. As Sen. Mungatana said, we have a number of pending ... view
• 5 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I second. view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to support this Motion on the consolidation of bursary funds for equitable access to education in Kenya by Sen. Karungo Thang’wa. This is a very progressive Motion. I know there is another Motion by Sen. (Prof.) Kamar on the same, calling for the abolition of bursary funds in our counties. The bursary was meant for needy students and pupils. The orphans or those students from extremely poor backgrounds. Now we are seeing a scenario where bursary seems to be a fund to benefit everyone. That is why you find in our ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: This fund should have stringent rules on who the beneficiaries should be. The needy students who are at home can benefit from this scheme and they can undertake their studies without any problem. How I wish the bursary funds in this country could borrow from a private fund that I know of; the Rattansi Education Fund, which targets mainly needy students at the university level. That fund has done so well. I was one of the beneficiaries of it. They are still supporting so many needy cases in our public universities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even as we talk about ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I would love to be informed by Sen. Wakoli. view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is even better. If we have to fully support this Motion, we need to amend it. I will be seeking an amendment to say the Senate resolves and directs the Ministry of Education to do the three things. This is a very important issue. We cannot spend our time discussing a Motion that some people will put it on the shelf and nothing will be done. The other correction I want to suggest is the issue of involvement of county government bursary funds. In our Sessional Committee on County Public Investment and Special Funds (CPISF), ... view
• 4 Dec 2024 in Senate: millions of money to bursary funds, and yet two critical functions in our counties; ECDE and vocational training centres, are hugely underfunded. ECDE centres are hugely underfunded, the ECDE teachers are poorly paid, there is no uniform scheme of service and the infrastructure is wanting. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, counties are now putting money into bursary schemes in order to create an avenue for misuse. In fact, in our report that we will be tabling, we have recommended that the Senate abolishes the bursary funds in all the counties so that counties can put their focus around vocational training centres. ... view