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    "id": 1213933,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1213933/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "in one of the offices waiting for Kenya Airways to tell me which flight I could catch, because the one that I was supposed to catch was cancelled, removed or delayed. As I sat in that office, I asked the gentleman whether I would get an upgrade because I was delayed and messed up. He said that it would not happen. Things do not happen in Kenya Airways these days like before. They have a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) called Mr. Allan Kilavuka. For the first time, they believe that Kenya Airways will do extremely well. He mentioned how the CEO had put checks and balances and how the people who were working in Kenya Airways were unable to do the things that they used to do before. They would sell you tickets and upgrade you with sideshows and corruption. I sat there and I was so proud. I said I did not know that man, but I was so proud because he had created such structures within Kenya Airways to try and take that airline from where it is in debts and losses to profit. I am sure we will see some changes. The best part was to see the employees of Kenya Airways being so happy that the CEO is actually identifying and pulling out all the people who are responsible for theft. We want to realise where this money is being lost or going. Where are the loopholes, so that we can make sure that the revenue coming into the pot is not being drained by big holes of theft. Then, we need people who care and love this country. We have a new Government which is now being likened to a company. When you do that, then you are saying that only the shareholders of that company are the beneficiaries. Then we are in the wrong place. Kenya belongs to all of us. It belongs to the past generations and the ones that will come in the future. If we want to live a Kenya that we are going to be proud of for the next generation, then we have to look at Kenya seriously and take its ownership. This is ensuring that we do not incur public debt that is unnecessary through corruption and to strangle the economy. The Government should not borrow from within the economy so that businesses can thrive. We raise taxes, but we make them deliver services."
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