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    "id": 1033561,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important matter. I used to sit on the board of KPA. At that time, KPA managed the ferry services. The manager there was also an employee of KPA. Later on, we thought that the time had arrived when the KFS should be independent and on their own; that it may grow faster when it is on its own. That is why I sat on the board that decided to give birth to KFS Ltd. I believe that the first General Manager was one Mr. Alex Leteipan. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it beats logic that something that was once within KPA, and KPA decided that is should be on its own, should go back to it. It does not make sense. The constitutionality of it is not quite right. As Sen. Wetangula has stated, under Part 5 (e) of the Fourth Schedule, ferries and harbours are devolved matters. I believe that they are devolved matters because when one thinks about ferries, the tendency in this country is to just think about Likoni, whereas ferries are actually everywhere. In Malindi, Homa Bay, Rusinga Island and so on, we use ferries. Everywhere that there is a river, lake and an island, we have ferries. The idea here is that the county governments should manage those ferries for the benefit of the people of those counties. I support my colleagues from Mombasa and the coast region because they have a very good argument on this particular matter."
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