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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "want to thank the Committee for taking due consideration of the Constitution, as required by law, and going through the treaties and coming up with a Report. Although I did not hear the Chairperson make reference to public participation during their deliberations, the effect of public participation as regards this issue is very important. Members of the public should have appeared before the Committee to give their views. The relevant stakeholders, especially, should always be given an opportunity to air their views. I am saying this because one of the issues that came up last year is about the agreement between Kenya and Nigeria. When an aircraft took back to Nigeria one of those unwanted persons by the name of “Chinedu”, our flight was held up in that country for quite a long time, without the authorities following the due process of the law as provided for under Section 22, where it says that settlement of disputes procedure must be followed. It is, therefore, very important for us to understand as to what really calls for aircrafts from this country to be held up in a foreign country and yet, there are agreements in place. So, it is important for us to check on such eventualities as we move forward. This Motion is on issues to do with commercial air transport, which is very important. This country is not locked on itself. It needs to do bilateral trade with other countries and be able to earn the very much needed foreign exchange for this country, so that it can be able to compete with other countries in the area of air travel. Commercial air transport across territories is very crucial for this country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other bit is about traffic rights. As it has been said, as a country, if you want to travel from one region to another, you may have to land in some place and wait for another flight to connect. This treaty gives birth to a situation where commercial airliners can fly through territories without having to land in that country, with the effect of making the commercial airline business very lucrative. Our customers will be able to fly without having to do a lot of connections. They can be able to fly through a territory without having to land in those territories. Again, something that has been raised by the Committee---"
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