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    "id": 1285685,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey on Kenya Airways. It seems this problem is unlikely to go away. It is webbed in challenges of other stakeholders controlling their issues. The solution suggested by Sen. Sifuna can only be the full privatisation of Kenya Airways in order to make sure that the entity is able to compete unhindered by unseen forces around its management. Kenya Airways has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that it will be incapable of changing itself in its current structure and setting. I would like to request His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya. I feel pain as a pilot. I have travelled vastly in my career before. Whenever I travel, for example, less than 10 years ago, Ethiopian Airlines was way behind Kenya Airways. Recently, I travelled to Addis Ababa. I looked at the fleet of Ethiopian Airlines in Bole International Airport and what I saw was unimaginable; from the handling of passengers in transit at the terminal, the number of people working in that airport in terms of shifts, and how busy it was. It really calls for a radical re-design of Kenya Airways in terms of structure and management. Kenya Airways needs to be fully privatised. The issues bedevilling them need to be looked into because it is in the best interest of the Government. The Government is struggling to create employment. This airport can employ hundreds of thousands of Kenyans if it is restructured properly, in order to do its work as required as a fully private entity, competing on a level platform with other players and airlines within the region and beyond. As I have shared before when this issue came up, it is not that the tickets are the cheapest in the region. You then wonder if the aircraft has full passengers, loaded to capacity and the tickets are not cheap; why should they then be making losses? It means that there is an issue beyond The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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