23 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to support the Report from the Departmental Committee on Lands on a complainant which was presented by the Kamiti Anmer Forest Squatters Association regarding allocation of land LR. No.8390 from Kiambu County. I am cognizant of the fact that this Committee tabled concrete evidence and that we invited all the relevant stakeholders starting with the Ministry of Lands which comprised the physical planners, the surveyors, the registrars and everybody who was concerned. We also took the petition and invited these petitioners starting with the Kamiti Squatters, the Kamiti Development Association, Muungano Kamiti ...
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23 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Due to the Post-Election Violence (PEV) which occurred in 1992, the second President of the Republic of Kenya gave a verbal directive that he wanted these squatters to be resettled at the Kamiti Forest, which still stands as a forest as of today, because the official degazettement has not taken place. Therefore, as a Committee, we feel that we have a duty to conduct and as a House, we have a duty to conduct and as a House, we owe the people of Kiambu and the squatters of the Kamiti Anmer Forest a duty to make sure that this parcel ...
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23 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
after we adopt this Report, the Ministry of Lands, the NLC and the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government will work in haste to ensure that these people receive their parcels of land. We have heard issues of Kihiu Mwiri in Kiambu County and other parts of Murang’a County where land matters and other emotive issues which are raised by land owners have been of security concern. People have been losing their lives through illicit groups and others going to the extent of killings their loved ones because of land. Therefore, I want to urge every single Member ...
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to confirm that I come from the County of Laikipia. I stand in support of the Committee’s Report and the proposal of nationalising KQ. When we talk about KQ, we talk about the pride of Africa and not only the pride of Nairobi or Kenya. The biggest question before us this afternoon is whether we have lived true to the Kenyan dream of making KQ a national airline which will not only be talked about positively in Kenya, but also in the entire Africa. I want to agree with the Chair of the Committee ...
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Majority of the shareholders are private individuals and foreigners whose interest is to curtail this country. They ensure that majority of the shares, not only the profits, go to other people as opposed to the people of Kenya. How sweet would it be, now that we are eulogising the life of Bob Collymore, the former CEO of Safaricom, for us to talk about a company that is 100 per cent owned by Kenyans, or majority shareholders are Kenyans? It would mean that even the mama mbogas would raise the required amount to buy even a single share.
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, allow me to remind our Chair that Mr. Mikosz - I do not know whether he was the CEO - resigned recently out of frustrations. We urge them to bring back Mr. Mikosz because as his name reads, it might sound like he brings misfortune. However, the misfortunes that he faced at KQ forced him to exit unceremoniously. It is the same issues that have forced the board of management to change. The issues still exist. One of the issues has to do with the revision of the mandate of managing our airports and airstrips, which must be ...
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
I applaud the Committee for making sure that all air navigation services are going to remain exclusively the mandate of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), which, in addition to that, shall collect enroute charges, aerodrome and approach charges as a way of collecting revenue.
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
In the past, KQ has been making losses. The biggest question is whether the other agencies such as KCAA are in a position to give us income. The reliability of this income will depend on services which are not only offered to KQ, but also to other airlines coming to the Republic of Kenya. I know Members are well-travelled and they know that our airport could be one of the least competitive in the market not only in Africa, but across the world. There are certain measures that we need to put in place to ensure that KQ and JKIA ...
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
Look at our neighbours in Rwanda. They are doing better than us. Any country which is struggling to get a modern international airport cannot afford to discourage any investor from investing in the Republic of Kenya. We want to see malls and five-star hotels coming up at JKIA. We need it to become a tourist attraction so that people on transit can leave foreign exchange here.
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4 Jul 2019 in National Assembly:
We seek the transfer of the management and assets of the KAA to the JKIA Company. We need to allow the aviation holding company to collect tariffs and the airport users’ charges, including landing and parking charges. The amendment of the Air Passage Services Charges Act should be put in place to allow the aviation holding company to collect the air passage service charges for distribution to its subsidiaries. All that is in the Report, which has been tabled in the House.
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