Captain Clement Muchiri Wambugu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Going to the Postal Corporation Act of 1998, we have the insertion of a new paragraph that says “postal financial service, incidental services---” but mainly what I want to look at is paying of money through mobile payments. We need to support the Kenya Postal Corporation to compete with other mobile operators so that at least they can get into this industry other than it being controlled by a few companies. While I speak on that, it is very sad because when we are trying to lower the rates in this country especially on mobile money transfers, radio telephony and ... view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support the Motion. I am also a Member of the Committee. It is good to say that we have looked at all those documents and found that they were in order. We encourage the Government to go ahead and enter into agreements with those countries. 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. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Like it has been said before, the importance of the bilateral agreement is to give permission to airlines or other operators operating into different countries, especially over-flights--- If you are flying from one place to the other, other than going round an airspace, you can overfly directly thus reducing costs. Otherwise, if you do not have that, you will be deemed to have infringed the airspace of that country and it could be a security threat. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: The other one like the Member said before is technical. It allows airlines to land in areas where they have been given permission for technical reasons such as refueling, in case of an emergency and all the others. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: It becomes difficult when you do not have the technical rights and you are overflying airspaces and something happens or you run out of fuel, trying to get a diversion. It is also a way of reducing direct costs on operations once we get that. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the main one that touches on us is on the carriage of persons, where we have an airline that can be designated to--- For example, Kenya Airways is being given permission or rights to land in a place like Lusaka with only one stop; going to Lusaka and coming back without any other rights into that country. That is one of them. Another one is when you land in the main capital of a country and from there you are given permission to proceed to another town within that country. This, sometimes, becomes very difficult if ... view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: As we go along to do this, you will find that in the other countries, their respective governments are giving a lot of support to their airlines. However, in our country, you will find that our Government has not been able to give the same support to our operators. Kenya, unless it pulls up its socks, we might end up losing a lot of money because we do not give the capacity to our airlines. I will give an example. Recently, there was the introduction of VAT to aircrafts and aircraft parts. What is the interpretation of that? You will ... view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: When we were debating the amendment Bill, I asked the Government to look at this issue critically because what will happen is--- Though it has been suggested and even requested by the International Civil Aviation Organization that countries should support their local operators so that they can be able to reduce the cost of flying, we are doing the reverse in our country. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: As we move along, I was in touch with the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade who told me that they will look into the matter when we discuss the Finance Bill of 2014/2015. But I think that this issue needs to be looked into even earlier because we could be closing down the airlines in this country. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the capabilities of various operators, you will find that it is the Government that comes up to guarantee the airlines in other countries, so that they can source for better and modern equipment. As a country, I know we are proud because we were able to get the Dream liner Aircraft. I hope the Government was able to remove VAT on the engines because most of the times, when you get a new aircraft, for you to operate it properly, you need to have those spare engines standby. Most of them are ... view