Sen. Osotsi Godfrey Atieno

Personal Bio

Hon. Sen Godfrey Osotsi, MP is the Senator for Vihiga County and the Chairperson County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee at Parliament of Kenya, The Senate. He is also a member of Information, Communication and Technology Committee. Sen. Osotsi is a computer science expert with master’s degree in Information Technology Management from Sunderland University United Kingdom.

Sen. Godfrey Osotsi was nominated into Parliament; The National Assembly in 2013 under Amani National Congress (ANC) party. He served in the House Business Committee as well as the Information Communication and Innovation Committee. He was also the Vice Chairperson Implementation Committee. Notable achievement in National assembly is the 2018 motion on establishment of sports academy in every constituency, which he successfully sponsored. The academy seeks to identify and nature talents across all constituencies in Kenya. Already Kenya Academy of sports council is in place implementing this motion.

Sen. Godfrey Osotsi served as Secretary General of ANC party May 2015 to 2017 where he was tasked with the responsibility of formulation and implementation of party strategies, policies, programmes and plans. This experience and exposure laid a foundation for him to venture into national politics.

Before venturing into politic, Sen. Osotsi was Chief Executive officer/Chief Trainer Bussinet Systems Limited. Head of ICT at Davis and Shartliff Company August 2007 to August 2009. He was Group ICT manager at Energy Regulatory Commission from September 2003 to August 2007 and ICT superintendent Mumias Outgrowers Company Limited May 2001 to August 2003.

Sen. Osotsi is a distinguished alumnus of Egerton University, Njoro with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He also holds executive masters in Bussiness Adminstration from JKUAT and Masters in Information Technology from Sunderland University.

In the course of his political duty Sen. Godfrey Osotsi continues to actively participate in legislation, representation and oversight at the Senate. As chairperson County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee, the Senator is committed to ensuring the new committee delivers on its oversight mandate on all investments done in counties as well as special funds in order for the common mwananchi to benefit.