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    "id": 1421238,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1421238/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 123,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport and Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "There has been a public debate about a plane that we donated. It is important to read the response for the record. Kenya Airways has not grounded any aircraft. Aircraft 5Y-KZJ, a B787-8 Dreamliner, took some time to undergo heavy maintenance because many critical components or parts were unavailable in the aircraft market. These shortages are well-publicized in the industry. Aircrafts 5Y-KQG and 5Y-KQH were two Boeing B737-700 aircraft in the KQ fleet under an operating lease arrangement. Upon the end of the lease, the lessors (owners of the aircraft) decommissioned the aircraft. It is important for those who may be new to the industry. Some planes run by airlines are not necessarily owned by the airlines under which they operate leases. Upon the end of the lease, the lessors decommissioned the aircraft and salvaged valuable components from the two aircraft. They removed what they thought was important and transferred what remained of the aircraft to KQ at zero cost. The authority to remove parts was probably vested in the lessors, who were the owners of the aircraft. The two aircraft, having been decommissioned and stripped by the owners for parts, had, therefore, only one viable use. That is as mock-ups in training. 5Y- KQG was thus transferred to the Kenya Airways Training School (Pride Centre) for use in cabin crew emergency training, practical aviation security training, and in-flight service training. As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility training, KQ donated 5Y-KQH on an as-is-where-is basis to Mangu High School for their training. Mangu is the only public high school with a well-developed flying school and club, and it provides a pool of skillsets that feed into the KQ workforce. The KQ board of directors procedurally approved all these. The estimated value of these two decommissioned aircraft is nothing more than their scrap value. I was invited to participate in the donation as a chief guest. The students were extremely excited. This was nothing except for scrap value. If you go to Kitengela, you will find somebody running a restaurant called 034, with an old plane being the restaurant. It does not mean it is a plane that should be flying cargo. It is important to clarify this to the public because a Member of Parliament (MP) stated that we donated a plane that would generate billions of dollars."
}