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    "id": 454061,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/454061/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shimbwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Omar Mwinyi Shimbwa",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, aware that air transport in Southern and Eastern Africa is growing with three major African carriers, including Kenya Airways Limited, dominating international and domestic flights of international traffic in the region; having grown at an annual average rate of 6.2 per cent between 2001 and 2007; further aware that Kenya Airways provides 70 per cent international traffic through Nairobi compared to South African Airways and Ethiopian Airlines at 33 per cent and 83 per cent respectively in their hubs; noting that Kenya Airways Limited enjoys monopoly in air transport in Kenya, thus determining the rate of fares at will due to the monopoly that they enjoy, and that demand for air travel has increased tremendously; given that there is no regulatory body in place to supervise and ensure fair opportunity for competition by different airlines to ensure checks on the excesses of the airlines, and that a number of airlines that applied for licences to operate domestic flights are yet to be give approvals, this House resolves that the Government puts in place measures to fully liberalize the air fares, including awarding licences to other operators to make air travel affordable as a result of fair competition."
}