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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also support the Motion moved by my friend, hon. Mwinyi. First of all, it is a shock to me that we do not have a regulatory body. I thought the KCAA was performing this function. If the KCAA are not doing a good job, then something needs to be done. Competition is known to be enhancing efficiency and, by extension, the economy. Monopoly is a market system which, in my view, hurts consumers of services and causes even more harm. Air travel has ceased to have an elastic demand. Air transport has inelastic demands because if you decide to travel, you will have to travel. If you are being exploited, then it is not just affecting the rich, as it used to be known that it was only the rich who fly. Nowadays most businesses are conducted through flights. A lot of Kenyans travel to Dubai to do business. They are average Kenyans. Some of them are not even in the middle class category. So, we need to enhance efficiency in the air travel. We need to be very candid with the Kenya Airways and tell them that the fact that we call them the national carrier does not make it a State company or parastatal. It is a private company and must conduct itself knowing that it is in competition and in business. If it has managed to create monopoly for itself, this country and this House has a duty to liberalise this market to enhance competition, so that we get the best out of it."
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