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    "id": 1403266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion by Hon. Ruweida Obo. Our armed forces deserve a lot of respect. They sacrifice a lot to ensure our country is safe within and without our borders. Therefore, we should give them just that one privilege when it comes to boarding flights. In other jurisdictions, you will hear women and children being given first priority, and then the armed forces and senior citizens. Let us give them that priority protocol and recognition so that they do not queue like any other person. I would like it to even be expanded to other places like banks. A general should not queue when he comes for service because he has already sacrificed a lot. Those people are always in the firing line. We would like to accord them that, but more importantly, is to look at the welfare because this is part of the welfare of our armed forces. The greatest welfare is to accord capacity to use equipment that is safe, equipment that is solid, not equipment that will back-fire on them. For example, we have had very many accidents, especially air accidents involving equipment, machinery or aircrafts especially for the armed forces and the police. We have lost a significant number of officers. As a country, we must review that, so that our military are accorded equipment that can help them manage their trade better. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as we take care of the military, we also need to take care of our State officials. I have looked at the presidential jet, and it has been there for more than 40 years. In the books, probably it is written-off but, because we are a country that we are, we still want our President to travel on the same presidential jet. That presidential jet is piloted by the Kenya Airforce. The people who work in that presidential jet are Kenya Airforce officers. Just like we want to buy equipment for those others, we also need to give the officers who man the presidential jet a jet that can assure them of their safety as they travel from one place to another carrying the President and his entourage. We must, as a country, budget for a new presidential jet so that we can retire this current one and have another one. This House has the responsibility of putting a budget line and the first budget so that…"
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