Losiakou David Pkosing

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, again, I thank you for giving me this great opportunity to move this very important Motion. It is important because it has come at the right time when, of course, we are trying, as I said earlier, to re- construct the Kenya Airways to fly higher. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on its consideration of the Bilateral Air Services Agreements between Kenya and the Hellenic Republic; Kenya and Burkina Faso; Kenya and Cambodia; Kenya and Seychelles; and Kenya and Finland, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 6th June 2019, and pursuant to Section 8 of the Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012 approves the Ratification of the Bilateral Air Services Agreements between Kenya and the Hellenic Republic; Kenya & Burkina Faso; Kenya and Cambodia; Kenya and Seychelles; and Kenya and Finland. As ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: In summary, this is what the five instruments are seeking to put in place. If you allow me, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can go into the details of each of the protocols and later ask my colleague to second me. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me explain a little bit the Kenya and Cambodia Bilateral Air Service Agreement. Of course, we know where Cambodia is. As a Committee, after receiving it from the Executive through the Cabinet Secretary, we observed that the Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Kenya and the Kingdom of Cambodia was negotiated, concluded and initialled on 9th and 10th September 2014 in Phnom Penh, in the Kingdom of Cambodia. It was further operationalised by the signing of a memorandum of understanding on 10th September 2014. So, it has come to the House fairly quickly. Of course, one ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: request, the text, language and the writing to be done. It is a legal instrument. After we approve it, it then becomes like an Act of Parliament in accordance with the Constitution. So, it takes a bit of time to negotiate. It is a give and take. Hon. Members would have seen that in the Report that I tabled. view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Further, the Agreement provides for multiple designation of airlines, limits the frequencies to seven, no restriction on aircraft capacity and an open and liberal route schedule. With regard to exercise of the 5th Freedom Traffic Rights, designated airlines can to be exchanged on reciprocal basis subject to approval by aeronautical authorities of respective parties. Frequencies are the number of landings. Therefore, the Agreement between Kenya and Cambodia limits the number to seven. It means they can land seven times in a day. That is what the frequencies mean. People may not understand the meaning of frequency and that is why ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The Agreement between Kenya and Burkina Faso is a very important one because Burkina Faso is a very strategic country in West Africa. In the Agreement, as a Committee, we noted that the bilateral air service agreement between Kenya and Burkina Faso was negotiated and initiated on 20th August 2008 in Burkina Faso and operationalised by signing a memorandum of understanding. That is some time back thus the negotiations took some time. The Agreement provides for multiple designation of airlines, unlimited number of frequencies (this is very good for our country), no restrictions on aircraft capacity and an open and ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The third Agreement before the House is between Kenya and Finland. This is very important because Finland is a very important destination in Europe for our country. My 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: Committee observed that the bilateral air service Agreement between Kenya and Finland was negotiated and initiated during the ICAN on 5th December 2017 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was signed on 14th December 2018. That took some time because of negotiations. Further, my Committee is saying that the Agreement provides for multiple designations of airlines, 14 frequencies per week, no restriction on aircraft capacity and an open and liberal goods schedule. Exercise of the 5th Freedom Traffic Rights is subject to approval by the respective aeronautical authorities. An aeronautical authority is like the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), which is ... view
• 10 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Following your directives, my Committee did not sleep for six months. We found out that Kenya Airways is finished. It is just working on mercy. If it was a human being, we can say it is breathing on a machine in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). My Committee was faced with two options among very many options on how to help our Kenya airline. One of the options was to present to this House a report on Kenya Airways and move forward. Some Members of my Committee asked why we are rescuing the Kenya Airways. Others said that we should not ... view