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    "content": "(iv) Hire a new commercial director with proven international experience to turn around its ticketing system and ensure a proper counting of revenue from the market sales. It should be noted that infusion capital can only be made upon meeting the condition stated above. The Committee does not recommend any bailout that is not sufficient to meet the company’s outstanding obligations. In other words, the bailout should be sufficient to turn around the company, not peanuts just to keep the company going. 3. The shareholders should review and restructure the Board of Directors composition since in the current composition the management team is over- represented. This over-representation undermines the Board’s advisory role. 4. The Committee further recommends that a new management team should:- (i) Explore arbitration alternatives with the employees and their unions with an aim of ending the long standing litigation. My Committee and I have never seen an enterprise that engages in a long drawn out litigation with its employees, creating sour industrial relations atmosphere in the company. (ii) Apply prudence in outsourcing of services without compromising the morale and efficiency of the existing employees. (iii) Review the joint venture with KLM especially on the provisions of code sharing, revenue management and sales tracking to ensure equity in revenue sharing. 5. The Committee welcomes the McKinsey initiative and emphasizes the importance of taking into account this Report, its observations and recommendations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee takes this opportunity to thank the offices of the Speaker and the Clerk of the Senate for facilitating the technical and administrative work of the Committee. The Clerk to the Senate, Mr. Nyegenye was extremely useful to the Committee in making himself and his office available at all times that we needed letters to be written to those that we expected to appear before us to give evidence whether locally or internationally. The Committee is also grateful to the Chairman of the Board and the entire management of the Kenya Airways Limited for appearing before the Committee on various occasions and submitting documents required by the Committee, notwithstanding that for about a month, there was a standoff between us and the Board of Management with regard to access to minutes and management letters. However, we assiduously followed this until the impasse was resolved. The Committee further thanks the employees and the unions that are representing the employees of the airline for patriotically presenting concerns on ways and means to redeem “the pride of Africa”. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is my pleasant duty, therefore, pursuant to Standing Order No.203, to table the Report of the Select Committee of the inquiry into Kenya Airways for discussion today and to initiate the discussion this morning with a view to the Senate adopting the Report which we believe should help the airline in its turn-around exercise particularly as McKinsey begins the work of doing the turn-around. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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