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"speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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"content": "debate, submitted its memorandum way past time. But being human beings, we said let us give everybody an opportunity. In fact, every person who submitted a memorandum for public participation was invited to this House. Everybody was to come. On that day, the LSK sent an apology to say: “Please give us another time. We are doing our business in Mombasa.” Parliament and my Committee cannot transact business by being dictated to or drawn programme by another person. The House must proceed on its own calendar. And you gave us an instruction to submit a report after the recess. Hon. Speaker, we gave them an opportunity. Apart from number one submitting out of time, we even had to bend backward to accommodate them and invite them to appear before the Committee. They never attended. It is on record and in the Hansard. So, what are we supposed to do? We were supposed to do what we were supposed to do. Everybody else did what they were supposed to do. I am pleading that you allow this process to proceed. Hon. Speaker, you can rule looking at the precedent. However, allow me as a human being to say this. I have heard some of these things. This Bill is a product of the House. You know what happened. Hon. Speaker, PIP came and it was controversial. Moreover, it pitted me against the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and Public Investments Committee (PIC). Hon. Speaker you know that. In addition, Hon. Speaker, you guided that my Committee looks at the issues and we went through the issues. It took us about eight months or one year. We brought the Report here. This Bill is a replica of that Report that was approved by the House. If there is any Bill that has gone through proper public participation, Hon. Speaker, it is this one. I dare and bet on it. Why? This is because it started as an inquiry. Eight months, we invited everybody in this country, including workers. They came before my Committee, gave their views, we listened to them and thought that the best way is to nationalize. We brought the entire Report with proposals and Hon. Speaker, if you look at this Bill, it has not deviated from the Report that was approved by the House. Hon. Speaker, maybe, some Members were not there or were not listening or they have been influenced. They are free. However, Hon. Speaker, it is a product of the House. Therefore, it was not rushed because it took eight... Before the Bill was even prepared by the Government, it took eight months out there in the public. There was the inquiry, report writing, round table and so on. All that was done and it included the Competition Authority of Kenya. Of course, you know where the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) goes when they have issues. They go to the National Treasury. Moreover, the Cabinet Secretary to the National Treasury and his team appeared before my Committee and presented their views at that time of inquiry. In addition, when the House approved, what did it approve? It approved that Kenya Airways (KQ) must be nationalized. It is this House, Hon. Speaker. Furthermore, Hon. Kajwang' is sitting in this House and he participated in that approval that KQ should be nationalized. After nationalization, Hon. Speaker - and I am surprised by Hon. Ichung'wah! Even if he was removed from the Budget and Appropriations Committee and is now playing politics, he should play his politics in Kikuyu, not in Parliament. He participated in approving it. He approved it when I was here. So, what happened? What we said, Hon. Speaker, it should be nationalized. That is number one. Number two, we create an agency that will hold... It is not a merger Hon. Speaker. I want to correct Hon. Ichung'wah. He should read the Report. If you look at that Report, there is no merger. KQ has shares. There are different entities, Hon. Speaker. They are only influenced by their own political persuasion. If it is politics, then we will meet in politics. The position, Hon. Speaker, is that let us allow Kenyans an opportunity for them to read the Bill and our Report. We did one of 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."
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