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    "id": 574795,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "the logic and it does not make sense to me. In the end, there is an intermediary who benefits in between. I want to believe that we can transfer that benefit to Africa by instituting as many direct flights as possible. A more important question for us today is that Kenya has four international Airports, namely the JKIA, Kisumu International Airport, Eldoret International Airport and Moi International Airport in Mombasa. For those of us who come from the western side of the country, one of the biggest agonies is when you want to travel to Uganda by air. You will have to travel to Kisumu, Nairobi then to Uganda. Honestly, it is one of those contradictions that do not make sense at all. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even as we brazenly blaze a trail in looking for new markets in West Africa, South Africa, North Africa and the rest of Africa in general, let us make regular flights in the region easy. I do not at all see why we cannot have regular flights from Kisumu to Eldoret or to Entebbe. It will really ease transport, open and hasten the economy between Kenya and Uganda which is one of our great trading partners. I have never understood why no one has ever thought of these direct flights between Kisumu and Entebbe. It has been mooted many times before but somehow, every time we are expectant that it is going to happen it does not take off. This is something that the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing in consultation with the relevant departments of Government should really consider. Sometimes it is very agonising because if you take a boat ride from some parts of Lake Victoria, you will see Jinja on the other side but to get to the same Jinja, you have to come to Nairobi. It is like going to Mombasa through Nakuru. It does not make sense to me. It is one of these things that we need to look at so that we can hasten commercial activities between Kenya and Uganda. Otherwise, I support."
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