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    "id": 1353780,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353780/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it would have been more appropriate to respond to Sen. Sifuna’s question under the other question on Kakamega Airstrip. It would have been more relevant than under that question. Nevertheless, the airport dropping areas are determined by security plans within the Airport. I landed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) this morning. Like many other passengers, the President and I were dropped far away from the terminal and we had to walk through the rain with umbrellas to the terminal itself. Nothing has changed because of the rains. The plans are already in place for where an airplane is designated where they park. The ones that are able to use the ladder - there is a name for it - which helps enter the Airport directly, are helped to do so. However, in the long-run, as I have said before, our infrastructure at the JKIA is constrained to accommodate all the airlines and all the parking that we require. That is an issue that will be resolved by building a new terminal. I have said several times before that we are in the process of working on a new Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model of a new terminal that we should be advertising by 15th January, 2024. I hope that we will get the relevant contractor by June, so that in the next three years we have a new complete Airport."
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