Eng. James Rege

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: As I stand here, I would like to inform Members that the benefits that we deliver from this Station are as follows:- It is majorly training of Kenyans, use of data for educational research, remote sensing, meteorological data usage, maritime surveillance, 220 Kenyans are employed there who earn a total of Kshs102 million, financial benefits which could be up to Kshs104 billion in the services that this centre provides to the Italian Government. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: The corporate social responsibility that, that centre gives Kenyans amounts to Kshs240 million. That money has been committed to Coast Development Authority (CDA) and a possible Kshs600 million that has been budgeted for Ngomeni area alone. The Government leaps a rental sum of about Kshs.8 million per year and this could go up to Kshs.25 million if additional 25 acres of land is provided for expansion of San Marco. We could reap more benefits only if we could understand what San Marco does with geothermal data that they gather. But as of now, there is no Report or funds that ... view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Since I only have 17 minutes and I gave some of this information last week, allow me to go into summary. If there are any doubts or any more queries, we do have this document. It has a lot of details on the operations at San Marco. The summary and recommendations that the Committee came up with include:- view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (i) The Government should enhance its oversight role in ensuring that the San Marco Space Application Centre maximizes its presence in Kenya in the enhancement of the Government development agenda in education, research, communication and information. The Kenyan government should be involved both at the technical and managerial levels to ensure sufficient supervision of operations and management and maximum utilization of benefits at the space centre. 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
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (ii) The new San Marco agreement should be under review and all future agreements should be approved by Parliament in line with the Constitution of 2010. The new agreement should correct the anomalies existing in the previous agreements and ensure it includes, among others:- view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (a) A joint management of the facility. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (b) A clear framework for third party agreements and signing of third party agreements in the presence of the Kenya Government. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (c) Provision for employment of Kenyans in senior managerial positions. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (d) Enhanced capacity building of Kenyans in space science technology. view
• 11 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: (e) Sharing of revenue gained from commercial services provided to users of the centre. view