{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=159598","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=159596","results":[{"id":1614162,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614162/?format=json","text_counter":266,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Matuga, ANC","speaker_title":"Hon. Kassim Tandaza","speaker":null,"content":"beyond the 200 nautical miles commonly referred to ‘high seas’ or the area beyond national jurisdiction whereby each country or nation can exploit that area without referring to Kenya although it is part of the Indian Ocean. With the level of development that we have, we are not able to monitor that area. As it stands, we are not even able to monitor the 200 nautical miles’ EEZ effectively. It is the only from the treaty we are going to get an opportunity to know what is happening at the high seas or the area beyond the national jurisdiction. Since we do not have the economic power and technology, it is only by assenting to treaty that we will benefit the knowledge and the natural resources being harvested there. Oceans are for prosperity. We will know how much fish and biodiversity is in that area when the time we can also exploit that area comes and, therefore, benefit from it. Without belabouring much and now that we have a whole Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs, this is the right time for us to ratify the Treaty, so that the country can benefit. Once we are signatories to the Treaty, there will even be a fund whereby we as a country can apply to and tap. With those few remarks, I second."},{"id":1614163,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614163/?format=json","text_counter":267,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Members, it has been exciting listening to this because my degree was in maritime law. I studied law of the sea. One of the subjects was memorising the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. It is wonderful to see that it has been expanded after so many years of having it being signed in the first place. With that, Members, it is my pleasure to propose the Question."},{"id":1614164,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614164/?format=json","text_counter":268,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Question proposed)"},{"id":1614165,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614165/?format=json","text_counter":269,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Members who want to contribute may just press the intervention button. Hon. Peter Kaluma, I know we were running the law of the sea programme together."},{"id":1614166,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614166/?format=json","text_counter":270,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. Of the many things you taught me at the University of Nairobi was Public International Law, more so, Law of the Sea. Therefore, I understand the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. You taught us that it was ratified in 1982. The sea territories are delimited in a particular way. Twenty nautical miles from the shoreline is territorial sea. That part of the sea called the territorial sea is treated as part of the State from which the sea moves. The contiguous zone is after that, 24 nautical miles from the territorial sea. It is called so because it is a zone to which a territorial State is entitled for its exclusive war engagements if there was war. Two hundred nautical miles from the shoreline of a territorial State into the sea is the EEZ. The EEZ means much for economic exploitation. I am emphasising this because we just came from the Blue Economy Madaraka Day celebration where you get people largely talking about fish and fish stock. The EEZ is the entitlement of a territorial State bordering a sea for purposes of exclusive economic exploitation. Whether it is fish stock or marine life, whether it is minerals prospected and discovered under those waters, they exclusively belong to the State. I am emphasising that to make a point. When you go deep into 200 nautical miles and if you put together that water area, I can tell you it means nearly a third of the territorial boundary of Kenya is within the sea. That is for purposes of the EEZ. The continental shelf is under the EEZ. The continental shelf entitlement of a territorial State also goes up to 200 nautical miles. However, it can extend up to 350 nautical miles with the agreement of the world bodies. For purposes of the continental shelf, let me confirm to the House that we have got the permission of the relevant committee and international body. Now we stretch up to 350 nautical miles. That means anything falling within the continental shelf The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1614167,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614167/?format=json","text_counter":271,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"from across the Indian Ocean can be exploited again exclusively by Kenya, following the agreement of the international community up to that level. Hon. Deputy Speaker, beyond the EEZ and the continental shelf is the high seas. You know we say res communis in that area. It falls within the right of the entire global community. The Treaty we are seeking to ratify is concerned about that area. There have been cases where highly industrialised nations like China and Japan and the countries that manufacture or own big ships trawl in the res communis or the high seas area. They trawl in the res communis, the industrial commercial zones or those areas that do not fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the territorial State. What has been happening is that when they go trawling, they search for a specific fish species, but catch everything the nets will go with and essentially, they throw away what they do not need. Out of those practices, we are killing a lot of marine life. There is res"},{"id":1614168,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614168/?format=json","text_counter":272,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"communis"},{"id":1614169,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614169/?format=json","text_counter":273,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"areas to be protected by this Convention whose ratification our agreement as Parliament is needed."},{"id":1614170,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614170/?format=json","text_counter":274,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"I end by emphasising the point that for a State like Kenya even going up to 50 nautical miles is still a problem because of the sizes of the ships we have and the level of technologies. We need to up our ability as a nation by investing in proper ships in our navies and at other levels so that we can protect marine life within those areas."},{"id":1614171,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614171/?format=json","text_counter":275,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Homa Bay town, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Peter Kaluma","speaker":null,"content":"We must protect areas beyond our territorial water boundaries under Agreements such as this which can restrict States with the power from finishing the marine life and ensure that we have waters which are sustainably used, used for people today, available for our children tomorrow, and available for our children’s children in the future."}]}