Francis Baya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 186.

• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The bilateral agreement entered between the Government of Kenya on one hand and the United States of America and United Kingdom on the other, exempts members of the Armed Forces of USA and British armies from immigration and emigration controls on entering or departing from Kenya. However, the military personnel must always identify themselves before an immigration officer by producing military identification cards and must not also be prohibited immigrants as per the Immigration Act, Cap 172, Laws of Kenya. (b) The Kenya military personnel do not enjoy similar privileges in ... view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I informed the hon. Member that prior to their arrival, the necessary information, including biodata is forwarded to the Government of Kenya. Therefore, there is a methodology through which all the required information is forwarded and kept with the Government. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a matter or issues that were discussed through bilateral agreements. Now a bilateral agreement is, of course, two ways; like if you talk of Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA). If KQ wants to fly to Singapore, it is Singapore also to reciprocate, if they want. But if they feel like they do not have enough aircrafts to fly to Nairobi, they may agree to allow Kenyan aircrafts to fly to Singapore, while they may not do it to Nairobi. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Similarly, these agreements were signed after requests by the officials of USA and UK some years back. For instance, the USA agreement was signed in June, 1980. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is totally different. The Question was why the American military personnel are not subjected to certain information. But as to the details of incentives they give to the Kenyan Government, that is not part of the Question. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a provision that there are reviews after every five years. The last review was done in 2002. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the double standards do not come out very clearly because we have like the British army in Nanyuki, they do a lot of operations. I do view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: not know whether Members would like us or our army to go and do the same in UK. But when it comes to collection of data before they come in, I do not think our soldiers are discriminated against in these countries. view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I am not aware that the immigration officers at JKIA are mistreated. If they are--- view
• 14 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that disgruntlement has not come to the office. However, it is a condition that their liaison officer and a military officer from Kenya are always there apart from the immigration officers. view