Maina Kamanda

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (iv) Tariffs. It is worthy to mention that international aviation is regulated by a complex website of 3,000 inter-locking bilateral air services agreement. In the recent years, a group of countries have come together to negotiate their services agreements, commonly known as bilateral agreements. However, the majority of them--- view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to point out a number of benefits associated with the bilateral air services agreements. One is to allow scheduled air carriage flights between territories, for example, between Kenya and other States hence leading to construction of required infrastructure facilities such as airports and create employment. You will remember that we are expanding our Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) so as to cater for those people who have entered into an agreement with us. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: There is also facilitation of trade between member States, ease of movement of persons and goods between Kenya and other States. There is more than 80 per cent of tourists who are using that agreement. There will also be co-operation arrangement between States. The Competition Authority has been facilitating joint assessment of alliances between Kenya and other State carriers, for example, KQ and KLM. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: They will also create a market access for flights between Kenya and other States thus creating a level playing field between Kenya and other carriers. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: This is in summary form but the whole document is there; article by article. There are many articles and I hope hon. Members got it two weeks ago and they have gone through all the articles. These are documents that are negotiated by highly placed people in the Government. For all the bilateral agreements, Kenya had sent a delegation and so, 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
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: it is something that has been anchored by our delegation that has been representing the country. I just want to acknowledge that the Committee is grateful to the Office of the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly for the logistics and technical support accorded to it during its Sittings. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: In conclusion, it is imperative that this House adopts this Report on the consideration of bilateral services agreements that allow the Cabinet Secretary for Transport and Infrastructure to prepare instruments of ratification within 30 days pursuant to Section 7 of Treaty Making and Ratification Act No.45 of 2012. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move and request the Vice-Chairman of the Committee, Hon. (Eng.) Mahamud to second it. view
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, can I donate one minute? I will be very brief. 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
• 29 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I am sorry, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me thank hon. Members who have contributed to this Motion and those who did not get time to contribute, like hon. (Ms.) Nyokabi. My Committee went through all these issues that hon. Members have talked about; monopoly of our airlines, pricing and we have agreed that we will invite those airlines and discuss the modalities because we feel there is monopoly in this country. Some of these agreements were signed in 2011 and you can imagine from that time that there are some countries that have wanted to pull out because they ... view