29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion. Let me start by congratulating the Mover. I believe that hon. Mwinyi brought this Motion to the House because he is a frequent flier from Nairobi to Mombasa and, therefore, it came up because of that experience. From the outset, I would say that monopoly is a bad game enterprise in any given endeavour. I believe that what we are talking about here, and what most of my colleagues have been expressing; is due to the fact that there is a monopoly somewhere in this industry, and especially in Kenya; where ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
which comes to public domain, for example, a certain dignitary has been mishandled and so on. These things could be covered, but because they know we will always go with their planes, they end up giving the travellers a raw deal. Hon. Deputy Speaker, to change flight with Kenya Airways is a nightmare. It is a big problem. The agents will throw you left, right and center and at the end of the day you are told to cough more money which at times is almost equal to the fare of the flight. If we had other competitors in the ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Speaker. I confirm that I pressed this one even before the Speaker walked into this august House.
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand guided. I stand to support this Report and I urge my colleagues in this august House to support and accept the ratification. From the outset, I will say that, as Kenyans, we cannot live in isolation from the other communities of the world. We cannot live in an island of our own. The direction the world is moving today, as a global village, is integration and co- operation so that countries can achieve, or maximise on their regional integration as far as the economy, social aspects and politics are concerned. At the ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the monetary issue was ratified in November last year. Ours is just to approve the report and we are not putting the cart before the horse. We are ratifying what was applied in November last year and, therefore, we, as a Committee went ahead to talk to stakeholders and those people who can shed more light on this matter. We came to the conclusion that we, as a country, and because the others had followed suit, we should also support ratification. This timeline, as one of my colleagues who was opposing it said, we should stop ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have heard from one of our colleagues today and it is true that you can go to Uganda now using your identity card instead of the passport. That is the way forward because we need to move forward as other parts of the world are doing. We have people going to Uganda to buy clothes cheaply and bring them here. If there is that open market for buying goods, it will be cheaper for our country.
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Therefore, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I strongly support because we need to move with the other world. The European Union is already moving on. There are those who have the monetary bit of it, but in due course with proper consultations and after 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.
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
mitigating whatever issues could have made them hold back, I think they will come over. We can say we are a superior economy. All right; we appreciate that but we cannot live on our own and we stand to benefit more. We stand to gain more from this co-operation. At the end of the day, we have our seaport which most of these other countries will be using. We have got our airport and it is the biggest in the region; even our economy is the biggest. So, at the end of the day we will be able to reap ...
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29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker.
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