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"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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"content": "I support the ratification of the Agreement, which seeks to grant rights to designated countries to establish offices and premises to fly over our territory, land in our territory to discharge and take passengers, cargo, baggage, mail, and luggage. This is to be done without any limitation in order to allow unlimited number of landings by unlimited number of planes of all sizes. Any plane can land anywhere at any time, but of course, this will be regulated. That means we are basically creating a huge hub. One of the greatest problems in Africa has been the inability of Africans to move within Africa freely. This Protocol will make movement of people amongst these countries much easier and interstate travel will increase, particularly among young people. This country has a lot of skills. An increase in the number of flights will obviously result in cheaper tickets. So, there will be a lot of movement of people with skills who will be seeking to work in other countries. Tourists will say that if you want to go anywhere in Africa or southern Africa, all you have to do is to go to Kenya. That will generate a lot of business particularly in the hospitality industry. Tourism will definitely improve. People will come to Kenya on their way to other countries and they will spend two or three days in the country because it will be easy to move. That will be great. Definitely, goods and services will be traded. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was salivating when you talked about the fantastic meals that you enjoyed in Botswana. I am sure they can be brought here although we have ours that are not improving. Definitely, we will have that brought here or we can go there to taste their meals. I hope that once we have this Agreement in place, we will salvage the financial situation of Kenya Airways. We know how year in year out, we have had to support the airline we call “The Pride of Africa.” We know that the pride comes from the money that is put into the airline every year. In a situation like this, it will be supported. I do not know whether it is only Kenya Airways that will benefit from this arrangement. I believe all the participating airlines, and more so small airlines like Fly540 and Safari Link, will also benefit. It will be a great thing for us if they can move around freely."
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