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    "content": "air staff, ground parking and so on. A sum of Kshs47 million went down the drain when the flight was cancelled. Recently, I was flying with my wife from Entebbe and the flight was cancelled and we were delayed at the airport for about five hours. The flight had a passenger capacity of about 112. That is another millions of shillings that have gone down. Let me read from one of the analysis of what happens when a flight is cancelled, what happens is that the airlines or companies with maintenance agreement with Kenya Airways, will always ensure that Kenya Airways planes are grounded longer for minor and inconsequential defects, so that their companies can maximize their earnings. Once such an incident happens in Amsterdam last Monday when Kenya Airways lost a total of Kshs47million in one flight because KLM engineers refused to clear the flight for takeoff over some valve leak which was found not to exist. When such a thing happens, KLM engineers would earn US$250 per hour per engineer orUS$120 per technician. This money is paid directly by Kenya Airways to the KLM accounts and it is not inclusive of repair and spare parts cost, which cost million of United States of America (USA) dollars. Why would Kenya Airways refuse to station their own engineers in such locations and lose Kshs47 million in one instance? The practice was common in Paris when Xavier Technology Services were contracted to maintain Kenya Airways planes, that 90 per cent of the planes were delayed or cancelled. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also know that Kenya Airways is going along the route of leasing aircraft. It is known that some individuals in this nation, in very high positions of political power are in cohort with Kenya Airways management to establish offshore companies which then lease planes to Kenya Airways at exorbitant prices, so that eventually Kenya Airways as a corporation in which the public has shares will collapse and then they can privatize Kenya Airways further into individual hands. This is known in the public domain. We in this Senate as the protectors of the people of this nation should establish a committee to look into the affairs of Kenya Airways and report to the nation. The nation believes that it is only the Senate with sober and informed leaders who can save this nation from this imminent collapse of our airline. The sad thing is it is because of corruption and the culture of looting public enterprises that Kenya Airways is now facing a crisis. I think Mr. Titus Naikuni should be called back to explain to the Kenyan people why it is that while he was the CEO of Kenya Airways, things did well and just before he departed he entered into certain arrangements which are now going to plunge our airlines into a tremendous crisis if it is not already there."
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