Dido Ali Raso

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: committee which is the body that manages this particular institution. It is only the chairmanship of the steering committee that is rotational with the exclusion of the representatives of Madagascar which is the host country. The steering committee is expected to provide strategic leadership to the institution. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Article 22 of the Agreement provides the entry into force of this Agreement by signing by the member countries which have agreed to be state parties to this Agreement. This Agreement was signed at Balaclava, Mauritius on 29th April 2018 by the representatives from Comoros, Djibouti, Madagascar, Mauritius and ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will now quickly progress to the second agreement which is the Regional Agreement on the Coordination of Operations at Sea in the Western Indian Ocean and the Explanatory Memorandum. The difference between the first agreement and the second one is that the first agreement is about information and exchange of data but the second one is about coordination of operation at sea. This Agreement also consists of 22 articles. Largely, they generally reflect the same sort of parameters as laid down in the first agreement in terms of the objectives, facilitation, scope of the agreement ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: There is also Article 7 of the Agreement that outlines coordinated operation of regional interest. Article 8 of the Agreement is on the actions that may be taken at the national level relating to suspicious vessels. Article 10 of the Agreement outlines boarding and such guidelines of vessels in the high sea. Only authorised team of state parties are allowed to carry out boarding and searches. However, visiting teams which may carry weapons may on a case by case basis operate in accordance with the modalities that are to be agreed between the state parties. On this particular one, the ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: There are also modalities, jurisdiction and mutual legal assistance in the Agreement. This is the legal assistance which is offered by state parties in case a vessel is intercepted carrying contraband or dangerous goods so that they can appear before court. There is also the issue of vessels beyond territorial waters of any state. This is about respect to the territorial borders of friendly countries. This Agreement was also signed in Balaclava, Mauritius on 29th April 2018 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: by representatives of Comoros, Djibouti, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles. Both Kenya and France signed the Agreement on 26th November 2018, subject to ratification by the National Assembly. There is also the financial implication. The host countries, Seychelles and Madagascar, are required to cater for the expenses of the two centres. Kenya’s express contribution to the Agreement is delegation at its cost of a liaison officer to the Centre. view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The following are the observations by the Committee. There is the procedure for approval of a treaty as stipulated in Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012. The implementation of the provision in the Agreement will enable Kenya foster regional cooperation in order to enhance maritime safety and security. The operationalisation of both the Operational Agreement and the Information Agreement require the cooperating state to each attach liaison officers to the Centre. The European Union (EU) through the Indian Ocean Commission has made provision for an initial funding amounting to Euros5million to support coordination of cooperation. view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Finally, the Committee recommends that pursuant to Section 8 of the Treaty Making and Ratification Act of 2012, the House approves the ratification of the Agreement for Setting up of a Regional Maritime Information Exchange and Sharing Mechanism in the Western Indian Ocean Region and Explanatory Memorandum and Regional Agreement on the Coordination of the Operation at Sea in the Western Indian Ocean and the Explanatory Memorandum. view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to ask Hon. Charles Kilonzo to second. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I thank our Hon. Chair for providing effective leadership to the Committee and also making sure that the Committee was able to effectively study the BSC to the extent that we visited the site, talked to the scientists and the administrators at the facility in Malindi. We also visited the ground station and the launch site in the sea. We left with the understanding that Kenya truly needs this facility. Last weekend was the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing. If one watched the programme that was shown on ... view
• 23 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The second issue is about the scientific nature of that facility where third parties like the National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) of the USA and the European Space Agency are able to interact with this facility. Among some of the realisations by the Committee were that when we have this facility in Kenya, we will interact with it for some time. This is to extent that even the training of our people has not been to the level we would have desired. There are several Articles that have been provided in this Agreement. I just want to point out two ... view