Losiakou David Pkosing

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, before I make a few observations from the public, it is good to know and tell the nation and the Members that this Bill is trying to address three things critically. One is to actualise the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution in terms of saying which roads will go to the counties and which ones shall be national. This is very critical and I would like to request the Members to check the Third Schedule of this Bill. It is very important to say so that when you give the reactions from the public, you will ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: In my view, as the Chairman of the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, it is good that this Bill has been brought back. There are certain issues which Members would discuss and realise that it is good it was brought back. Secondly, we are discussing it at the best time in the history of this country. We are going into the Budget cycle. As we are all aware, we have already started the annual Budget-making process. It is good that we pass this policy before June, so that the country can be very clear in terms of what ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Yes. It was agreed yesterday that Chairs of Committees must be given more time. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will give me more time so that I can share with the Members the views given to the Committee by members of the public. Remember that people have gone to court to challenge our Bills and they have succeeded by saying that there was no sufficient public participation. We must address the issues that were raised by members of the public so that this Parliament can be known to have conducted public participation sessions. Our governors were represented by the Governor of Nyandarua, Hon. Kimemia and the Governor of the great people of Busia, Hon. ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: amorphous. What do we mean by “consultation”? Is it about writing a letter and waiting for a reply? How long are you supposed to wait? Is it about making a phone call, and who will own up? Even if you wrote a letter to consult, must the reply be positive or negative? If we go that way, two things will happen. There will be delays in implementation of projects. What would you be waiting for? An opinion? What if you waited forever? We felt it is a dangerous way of doing things, particularly within the road sector. In the infrastructure ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I think they must have taken this from us and they went back and held another meeting this time under the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), which is higher than them. They had a joint communique which I want to present to the House. It is in our Report and it is very critical. It is signed by H.E. Governor Ann Waiguru, EGH and Vice-Chair of the Council of Governors and the Minister. It means their proposals become even stronger. In their communique, which I think they agreed with the IBEC, knowing what the IBEC means, they wrote to ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: When they saw we were going to retain them, they went back and agreed to review the terms back to 20 per cent to enable them to implement their roads. They also seem to have reviewed the classification of roads which they wanted. As I had said earlier, they said they wanted classes H and E. They reviewed and proposed that this time they are okay with Class D and not H, which can remain with the national Government. That was their proposal which is very crucial for this House to understand. We received submissions from KeRRA and I have ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: proposals. Key among them was, again, the formula of populating the board. I want to share with the House because I have talked about this for a while. Looking at the Bill, the formula it proposes on how to populate the boards is interesting. For example, I want to take Members to Clause 12, which is very interesting and is captured in our observation. Under Clause 14, there is the Board of KeNHA. This is very interesting because you realise that people were trying to use Parliament to create a club of certain people or alumni. Just listen for one ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I am reading Clause 14(2)(a) of the Bill. view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Temporary Deputy Speaker, I hope we are together. It talks about the chairperson of KeNHA, that he/she shall be appointed by the President, but from amongst people under (f). So, what does (f) state? It states that: “(f) five persons, nominated by the following organisations – (i) Institution of Engineers of Kenya; (ii) Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya; (iii) Law Society of Kenya; (iv) Institute of Surveyors of Kenya; and, (v) Kenya Private Sector Alliance.” Funnily, this is not enough. When you go to the constitution of the Board of KURA in Clause 17, it is the same ... view