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    "id": 497470,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/497470/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wambugu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 149,
        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion. For your information, I am still very current. It pains us to see the way the industry is moving in terms of the operating costs and more so the prices of air tickets. Though we could be talking of liberalisation, all this is just because of a few factors, which can be corrected by the Government. If those factors are corrected, this country can move in the right direction. The Kenya Airways is an operator among many others. Why are we not having enough airlines to operate locally? In order for you to operate an airline in this country, there are various procedures that you have to go through. First, you have to have a registered company in the name of an airline. After that, you have to go to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), which is the regulator; to apply for a licence we call the “Air Service Licence (ASL),” which is a very tedious process. In order to get that licence, you are required to have an aeroplane. You either buy an aeroplane or you lease one. Leasing procedures have been made so complicated in this country that very few people will ever be able to run an airline in the future. Even when somebody gets an ASL, which does not allow you to operate an airline, the Government pushes you further to acquire another licence called an “Air Operator Certificate (AOC)”. Even to get that one is hell. To be able to complete that process, you could be talking of spending many millions of shillings. Why is the Government frustrating Kenyans who want to get into this industry? Madam Speaker, we have our staff in the KCAA’s Air Worthiness Division, who are supposed to be having very high qualifications to be able to certify you. They require pilots. In Kenya, we have a big shortage of pilots. The Government has not invested or even thought of doing anything to help the industry. When will the Government start funding KCAA for it to train more people who can be doing inspections for AOC? That The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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