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    "id": 497482,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/497482/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Melly",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12849,
        "legal_name": "Julius Kipbiwot Melly",
        "slug": "julius-kipbiwot-melly"
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    "content": "attributed to monopoly by the Kenya Airways. You realise that if you want to travel from Nairobi to Mombasa, for instance, it is very expensive and inhibitive for businesses. It will not even allow what our Principals are calling the double digit growth of our economy. As I speak, the Kenya Airways is the sole airline that is in control of all the airports in the country, namely, Mombasa, Eldoret and Nairobi. However, Fly 540, which is a local airline provides even better services and its fares are reasonable. If we liberalise the air transport, we will have more airlines. This will create more jobs for the young Kenyans who are jobless. We have a problem where we are saying that jobs are only found in industries. However, jobs can be found in the service sector. If air transport is liberalized, more airlines will come, more businesses will grow, many Kenyans will travel and employment opportunities will be created. It will also promote the establishment of services such as hotels like at the Coast. A number of Kenyans cannot travel down to the Coast because it costs up to Kshs30,000 to go to Mombasa and come back over a weekend. This Motion is timely. Let us have a regulatory body to regulate the fares, so that the Kenya Airways does not wake up one morning and give us high fares because they do not have competitors. The tax component in our air fares should also be reduced. It is very high. It is one of the things that inhibit air transport. I support."
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