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    "id": 1337869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng.) John Kiragu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion on East African Community Multilateral Agreement on Aircrafts Accidents and Incident Investigations. This is very important because, one, it calls for Kenya and the rest of East African countries to organise themselves to collaborate and build capacity to do accidents and incident investigations. It is true that African countries have always relied on support from either Asia, Europe or America in terms of doing investigations. This has cost us in the region a lot of money. You may recall the accidents that we have had like the last one where we lost the Minister, Prof. Saitoti, and others. We had to seek help to do an accident investigation from foreigners. What we are saying here is that with this agreement within the East African Community, it is possible to train and equip officers so that we can do our business here. We can also create capacity in ensuring that we can provide the necessary skills required whether it is in testing like in non- destructive testing for checking the failures in an aircraft body or in any moving component, or material failure for that matter. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this treaty will focus on matters safety. Safety is very important because the integrity of running a good aviation industry requires that we have the right protocols to ensure safety. The other thing is the reliability of the service that we provide. In this Agreement, there will be an element of developing so that the services provided in the aviation industry in the region will be reliable. The other thing is the efficiency. We know that our airlines, due to many of the problems that we have, are not efficient. We believe that with this Agreement, there will be room for developing better efficiency. The fact that we require the services to be cost effective is also important. If we relied on importing people to do certain things like inspections and investigations on accidents and incidents, then it means that there will be money that is leaving this region and going out to help others. If we can implement the Agreement and develop the capacity, we can also have an effective and cost-effective service that is competitive with the rest of the region. We know that the aviation industry in this region has developed. It is increasing and the East African Community itself is growing. For that reason, it is important that we exploit the open skies within the East African Community and move around with the specialised The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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