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    "id": 1073601,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think the issue that is here is, as the Leader had rightfully put it, it is not an element of whether we are giving Kenya Airways money. It is an issue of certain taxation that this House passed and that taxation that a number of us felt was going to be unfair to Kenyans has come to bite us. When I say us, I means us as custodians of Government entities. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will convince the Government that this taxation that has now been declared and put aside by the Judiciary shall no longer take effect. This is not something that will be unique to Kenya Airways who are right in appealing to this House that this tax should be suspended. We are looking at suspending this tax for Kenya Airways alone, but let us consider all the others. I am glad, and the Chair will agree with me that in countries like Senegal, where they announced US $128 million to relieve the tourism and air transport sector, that was not for the national airline alone, but for the whole sector. In Seychelles, they have waived all landing and parking fees from April to December 2020. That was not for the national airline alone or the local carrier but, rather, it was for all the airlines. Cote-de’ Ivoire waived its tourism tax on transit passengers. It was not for a specific airline but for every single passenger who was using Cote-de’Ivoire as a transit point. When Lufthansa entered into an agreement with the German Government for a 9 billion Euro bailout… Let us not try and compare the two. I heard the Leader of the Majority Party talk of the Emirates. These are entities and companies that have been posting profits."
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