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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, AWARE THAT the Senate, on 18th June, 2015, resolved to establish a Select Committee consisting of 11 Senators to conduct an inquiry into the affairs of Kenya Airways Limited and its Subsidiaries and report back to the House within three months of its establishment; REALIZING THAT the three month period lapsed on 18th September, 2015 but owing to the magnitude of the work involved the Committee was not able to complete its work within the duration; NOTING THE NEED for more time to carry out a thorough inquiry into this matter; NOW THEREFORE the Senate resolves to renew the mandate of the Committee for a further period of two months to enable the Committee to complete its work and report to the House and further resolves that the following two Senators be added to the membership of the Select Committee- 1. Sen. Stephen Sang; and 2. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. First, I would like to thank the Members of the Committee; my Vice-Chairperson, Sen. Kagwe from Nyeri, Senior Counsel, Sen. Orengo from Siaya, Sen. Hassan from Mombasa, Sen. Billow from Mandera, Sen. (Prof.) Lesan from Bomet, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, Nominated Senator, Sen. Lesuuda, Nominated Senator, Sen. Mositet from Kajiado, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale from Kakamega and Sen. Karaba from Kirinyaga. As the Motion states, we have worked steadfastly for the last three months until our mandate ended. We have held a total of about 24 sittings; working very hard to deliver to the Senate. Unfortunately, certain logistical problems arose, one of them being the fact that Senators are overstretched in several Committees and the second being that the Kenya Airways itself, the subject matter in this, did not find it easy to deliver certain documents to us, particularly, the board minutes and management letters from the auditors. These documents are extremely important for the Committee’s work. Kenya Airways insisted to begin with, that we go there and see those minutes in their premises, which is against the procedures of the House. It would have been inconvenient to us. Secondly, they said that given the rules of the Capital Markets Authority, that they needed special permission from the Capital Markets Authority to do this, but the Capital Markets Authority just last week finally gave this permission with certain conditions attached to it. After discussing in the Committee and in consultation with the Clerk of the Senate, we agreed to accept them and for those minutes to be delivered. I had to call the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) of Kenya Airways this morning The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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