Losiakou David Pkosing

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: This is a critical straightforward amendment. It is amending the Tokyo Convention of 1963. The Tokyo Convention of 1963 was telling the authorities how to deal with unruly passengers on-board an aircraft. As Members might have seen in our Report, the offenses are as follows: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Physical assault or a threat to commit such assault against a crew member and refusal to follow a lawful instruction given by or on behalf of the aircraft commander for safety purposes. Those are offences that the Montreal Protocol attempted to address. It proceeded to recognise that airlines have a right to and may seek compensation from unruly passengers for costs incurred as a result of their unruly behavior, where this involves diversions to disembark an unruly passenger. It further recognises that States may establish an in-flight security officer programme on a bilateral or multilateral terms. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Why are we seeking this amendment? This amendment is very important because the Tokyo Convention of 1963 limits jurisdiction to take action over offences and other acts committed on-board aircraft to the State of registration of the aircraft in question. This is very critical, that the convention only recognises State of registration. This means that if the aircraft is registered in this country, the power and the jurisdiction to take action on offenses which I have earlier stated is bestowed upon the State of registration. However, that Convention forgot State of landing and State of operator. It means that a ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Two, it did not recognise State of landing. This means that if you are flying, for example, from Lagos to Middle East, and overflying Kenya, then in between maybe in Congo or in the air of Uganda, an unruly passenger commits the offenses which I have earlier said, if that plane lands in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), we call that State of landing. However, without this Montreal Protocol, then it means that Kenya has no jurisdiction to punish that passenger. What happens? Will people go with the unruly passenger? Will that assure them of their security? It will not. ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Why did countries seek to punish those unruly passengers? There might be a number of reasons. We are living in the terrorism era. You never know at what level will a passenger becomes a terrorist or behaves like a terrorist. Therefore, that endangers hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of people flying. Flying has become one of the major means of transport. Most people travel by air. How do you assure them of their security because of terrorism? That is why people met in Montreal under International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO). ICAO is again sitting from next week to regulate ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: It assures other people who are flying to our country or overflying our country, of security. Therefore, people can overfly our country. Of course, people will know and if they do not know, I would like them to know that when people overfly our country, they pay. Therefore, when we have this on board, it means that many people will choose to overfly our country because if anything happens, they can land, disembark that unruly passenger and our country will be seized of the matter. That puts our country in another level in terms of flying and addressing issues of ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The second reason why this is very crucial is this. On behalf of my Committee, I am asking the House to agree with us – is that we are now expanding our networks through Kenya Airways. You might see my Committee shortly, when given an opportunity, seeking permission to land in other countries. When we are expanding our networks, one of the conditions that we will be asked when requesting to land is whether we have also adopted this Protocol to assure citizens of the world security in our country and whether we are within international requirements in terms of ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: by the Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012, particularly Section 8 of that piece of legislation. Yes, Article 118 of the Constitution provides for public participation. Did this Protocol go for public participation? Yes. I confirm to the House that we published in the newspapers for people to make contributions. The Ministry and all other stakeholders made their presentations to my honourable Committee. We prosecuted it and they were very well informed about this Protocol. They only requested that we fast-track this Protocol so that our country can do the things which I have just suggested. With those many or ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you most sincerely, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because when you are the Chair, you give me an opportunity to speak. I really thank you in a very special way. Two, the Member was excited because I was sorting you out. He was trying to drift our people towards a different direction, which they do not want. I told him that he was serving his last term in Parliament. He is back now. I told him that he is back in Parliament and he would not go out. He was very happy when I told him that he had ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As I reply, I want to thank the hon. Members who made contributions. They made very critical contributions which are very moving. I was listening and I have taken notes. Going forward, the House needs to re-think about having a health officer aboard flights because it is very critical. It is very important to have him or her onboard. When we advertise to conduct public participation in future, Hon. Members who have very important input on some of these protocols should come to the Committee. For example, if we had this valuable contribution from hon. Members at the level of ... view