Losiakou David Pkosing

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to give this response to a statement regarding the overdue expansion of Kangundo Road by Hon. George Theuri, the Member of Parliament for Embakasi West. I do not know if the Member is aware, but let me proceed for the benefit of the House. We received the response by the Ministry and specifically Hon. Theuri wanted to know the following; (i) How that money on the recent expansion works on Kangundo Road was banked. (ii) What the specific designs of the dual carriage are, its projected cost and scheduled timelines for expansion and improvement. ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Based Maintenance where the contractor addresses any maintenance issues until the completion of the contract on 7th April 2022. It is important to note that there were no expansion works done and the works undertaken were a holding maintenance exercise. The works are substantially complete and the contractor has been paid Ksh1, 073,963,224.72 to date. Finally, the Ministry through the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), has and will endeavor to continue maintaining Kangundo Road to motorable conditions as mentioned in (1) above as it sources for funds for capacity enhancement. That is the response to my colleague Hon. Theuri. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to move this very important Motion. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on its Inquiry into the Use of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 22nd September, 2020. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in moving this critical Motion, the question then begs: What are we specifically asking the House to agree with us? My Committee is asking the House to agree with us on a number of issues. We are asking the House, and these are the recommendations in the Report to be tabled, to agree with us that importers should have freedom of choice on the mode of transport to be used to haul their goods from the port to the final destination without restriction from any government agency. Secondly, we are asking the House to agree with ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thirdly, we are asking the House to agree with us that as a revenue raising measure, the Government should consider adjustment to the Railway Development Levy (RDL) to give incentives for the use of SGR. How do we do it? We are proposing that importers who choose to haul their goods using the SGR be allowed pay a preferential RDL of 1.5 per cent instead of 2 per cent of the value of the goods they import. The reason is that this Levy is supposed to promote the SGR. If one uses the SGR, then one needs to get incentives ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: The issues surround the notion that the Government is forcing people to use the SGR. It does not feel good that the Government is forcing people to use the SGR. Remember, the SGR is a mode of transport just like any other, for example, lorries and trucks transporting goods from Mombasa to Nairobi. There were a lot of concerns from members of the public in the entire country and, of course, demonstrations here and there. From where you sit, Hon. Speaker, you ruled that this Committee does an inquiry so that we bring all these things together. Once you directed ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that was not even three minutes. I was also timing myself. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: That was not even three minutes. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said that, what came out from the deliberations in terms of trying to identify the issues that were affecting the SGR, we came up with three general observations. One, the SGR is not expensive after all, and this is important to say. When you are transporting your cargo using SGR compared with the trucks, SGR is cheaper by about Ksh10,000. We realised that if you are using SGR you are required to pay about USD833 while if you are using a truck you will pay USD926, which is about ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Two, we realized and made observations that the biggest problem was the Last Mile and the First Mile, particularly the Last Mile. A customer or a user of SGR houses his or her items in the ICDE in Nairobi and then after that he or she looks for his or her own truck to take these goods to their warehouse, factory or a store. That brought a lot of problems. That is why SGR became very inconveniencing. We also realised that normally, trucks take back the empty containers to Mombasa in the same payment, even if it was Ksh92,000. However, ... view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, is he in order to insinuate that now that they have joined Jubilee, we are now working? Were we not working before? We were working but he could not see. That was the problem. Now that he is in Government, he sees that we are working. He is a good man. He is a former mayor. He must understand that we were working. He could not see. view