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    "id": 1239208,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement on Kenya Airways. However, I want to put emphasis on two things. One is the issue of expatriates. It appears we are still colonized in our minds, such that we still believe that the only people who can do great work are people who are not of Kenyan origin. When I look at all the issues that have been highlighted by my fellow Senators, the one key issue that stood out is that the management of Kenya Airways needs to be looked into. We have issues of accountability and transparency. I have heard Sen. Veronica Maina give examples of how basic bad behavior is actually being tolerated. The same is actually coming from the top. It is very unfortunate that Sen. Chute said that nothing can be done. I believe that the President has the best interests of KQ at heart. However, he is being let down by so many of his foot soldiers, starting from the management of that airline. As I stand here today, I was trying to calculate what Kshs32.26 billion worth of loses looks like in terms of what we could do with it. At the end of the day, when we bring Statements and they are referred to the different committees, particularly for this specific Committee of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works, I know they are dealing with a lot. I urge you to kindly, perhaps, this is an issue that requires an ad hoc Committee. This is so that we can have Senators who are committed to sit down and actually work on this thing for three or two weeks, so that they can finalise on it. From where I sit, there are two issues. Transparency and accountably must be dealt with. I have listened to Sen. Onyonka go round and round and tell us about the issue of company limited. However, we know that the owners - what we were calling “State"
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