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    "id": 1073582,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1073582/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Central Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Kirima",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13317,
        "legal_name": "Moses Nguchine Kirima",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I, hereby, stand to support this Motion. Kenya Airways has not been so much beneficial to Kenyans despite pumping a lot of taxpayers’ money in the said body. Kenya Airways has been a monopoly airline in Kenya. It has no competitor. One then wonders how a monopoly business entity makes great losses each and every subsequent year without competition. If the money that the taxpayers give to KQ every now and then is used to uplift the standards of the common man – the people suffering in the villages because of lack of infrastructure like motorable roads and lack of water - it would do a lot. In some places, you will find people travelling several kilometres to get water because there is no money to even dig a borehole. Kenyans are not happy with what we are doing as legislators or those who represent them here. As Members of Parliament, we are the people who take care of the common man’s interest. Instead, we revive a moribund body which does not benefit Kenyans at all. What do you do about it? At no time will you go to KQ and find it empty. It is always full. The people in KQ conduct themselves in a way that we do not understand. A body like KQ is a trading body and is supposed to be making losses when there are no customers. This entity is a monopoly. It is applying a monopoly method. It is always full. However, if you look at it, in many aspects, especially when it comes to international flights, KQ is not competitive enough in the international market because of its conduct and, therefore, it is killing its own self. As for that, even if we keep on pumping money into it, we are not going to assist it at the end of the day. We must have a term limit. It should be said that we are reviving it up to a certain time like tomorrow or next year. If by next year it will not have a foot to stand on, it should be disbanded and something else done or be put under liquidation. We are killing Kenyans by giving money to a body which cannot come up. It is like trying to revive somebody in a mortuary. As a House, we are not doing the right thing as it pertains to putting the taxpayers’ money in KQ. The Mover of the Motion must stand up and tell us; up to when will we support it? The other day, we were trying to merge KQ with Kenya Airports Authority (KAA). Nobody knows what is happening. We are trying to mix things in a way that, at the end of the day, they are going to come out as per the way those people want it to be in order for them to achieve their aim. I support the Motion. It is only that I would like my sentiments to be noted. 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."
}