Osotsi Godfrey Otieno

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• 29 Mar 2023 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 29 Mar 2023 in Senate: a House of records and rules. Therefore, it should take a lead in protecting constitutionalism in this country. I have listened very carefully to contributions. I have had the benefit of being in the other House. I have seen scenarios where one side of the House forcefully pushes through legislations, but later on, that piece of legislation comes back to hurt them the most. This House has to debate and pass laws or Standing Orders for posterity and not for political expediency. I have heard my young sister, Sen. Okenyuri, talk about election pledges. We all gave election pledges. Even ... view
• 29 Mar 2023 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 29 Mar 2023 in Senate: Senate cannot descend that low. We want to pass laws that are going to be respected in a long time to come. As I said, in future, these laws will come to haunt you. I have gone through that in the other House where I was. I remember they vigorously passed the Security Laws. The same people who passed it, came later on to cry about it. I am very certain that it will again happen to this House. Let us be objective. In future, we are going to remind ourselves of what we did by forcefully passing these amendments. ... view
• 29 Mar 2023 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 29 Mar 2023 in Senate: I am worried that if we take away Wednesday, we will not be able to clear the backlog we have. In that case, we will permanently request for leave in order to handle the numerous reports we have in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and County Public Investments Committee (CPIC). I want to urge Members to be objective and wise in this matter. We may do things in a hurry to impress our political bosses, but I can guarantee you that in future this will come to haunt us. This is a matter where if one went to court, ... view
• 28 Mar 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order No. 53(1), to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget regarding the disbursement of funds to County Governments. In the Statement, the Committee should - (i)provide an update on the current status of respective counties with regard to disbursement of funds for development and recurrent expenditure for financial year 2022/2023; (ii)state the reasons for delay in disbursement of funds to counties from November 2022 to date, despite Senate having passed the disbursement schedule in January, 2023; (iii)inform the Senate on the status of execution of the conditional ... view
• 28 Mar 2023 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 28 Mar 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 23 Mar 2023 in Senate: For my Statement? view