Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1271 to 1280 of 1320.

• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the area of tourism, there is increasing interest by tourists to use ships that sail along various ports in the world. If this Bill becomes an Act, we will have an increased number of tourists coming to this country using passenger ships. This is going to boost our tourism industry and will create more jobs. So, I believe it is very important that we pass this Bill so that we can start reaping these benefits. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: 4334 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES January 21, 2009 view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: On the issue of environmental management and conservation, particularly on pollution, it is an aspect that needs to be taken care of. Although it is not well covered in this Bill, but I think as we encourage more ships to come to our ports, we will need to ensure that the issue of protection of our marine environment is ensured by putting in place rules that will ensure that any shipping lines that may cause pollution particularly through oil spillage are made to pay. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another area where I see a lot of jobs created is in our inland waters. Take for example Lake Victoria. I happen to come from Kakamega and when I was a kid, we had many shipping lines on Lake Victoria which were moving between Kisumu, Musoma, Mwanza, Jinja and so on. They used to make transport on Lake Victoria very convenient. Most of the goods were transported using Lake Victoria. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Today, we do not have any ships plying on Lake Victoria. It is no wonder we have all these vehicles which are destroying our roads because all our goods are now being transported by road. However, for example, in East Africa, if we developed a marine system of shipping transportation on Lake Victoria, we would save most of our roads from destruction. Most of the goods that go to Tanzania, Uganda and the Great Lakes would go through Lake Victoria and, therefore, we will save our roads but for now we do not have those facilities. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I believe this Bill will make this possible and make Kenyans get into the business of shipping. Most Kenyans are wealthy enough to get into the shipping industry but because there is no law, most Kenyans cannot get into this industry. So, with this law, I believe Kenyans will invest in this area which is very lucrative and still virgin. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this law will also allow us to use the best practices that are being practised by various countries in the world. Currently, Kenya has signed a number of maritime conventions and because of lack of this law, we are not able to implement them. So, I believe with the enactment of this law, we will be able to implement those conventions that we have acceded to or ratified. So, it is important that this Bill is supported. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: This Bill also gives a lot of authority and power to the Kenya Marine Authority. It will be able to do a lot of work particularly in overseeing what is going on in our marine businesses in terms of registering the number of ships coming, the number of passengers, seafarers and all these. So, we will have all this information. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, security and safety on our marine waters is not guaranteed because we do not have the law to take care of it. This Bill has actually articulated the issue of safety on all our marine waters very well. So, pirates, as all Kenyans now know, seem to have found out that they can make millions easily and particularly in our Indian Ocean waters where we have lots of them. So, with this law, this country will be able to deal ruthlessly with pirates. As of now, pirates have a field day because we do ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: So, I wish to support this Bill and I hope that the rest of the Members will do so. view