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    "content": "Recently, a number of non-Kenyans, mostly from Europe, have been writing to the editors of various newspapers. One of them said that he has been coming to Kenya on holiday for many decades and always used KQ, but recently he found that the service in the cabin is very poor. When KQ cancels flights in European countries, like Britain, within an hour to the flight, and everybody else is on time, people just change the airline and go to another one. Although the Committee did not dwell so much on the fact that we are talking about the immediate past CEO, there have been other CEOs. I do not think that the problems ailing KQ have happened now; it is a history of activities and mis- activities. Finally, KQ started off as a Government corporation. Even now we are interrogating it because it has public funds in it. Once a board, a parastatal or public corporation has been set up, we do not want to micromanage it, because we have set up a board to do it. However, by the look of things, we must re-think how these parastatals will run, because we are now dealing with postmortem after problems have come. It is about time Parliament rethinks the whole idea of the Public Investment Committee, so that there can be an opportunity to raise a red flag before the airline virtually collapses. We are talking about reviving the airline because it is a national airline, but if it was a purely commercial enterprise we could have closed it. We want to be proud of our national airline and that is why we want to revive it. Let me start by saying that the Public Investments Committee must have a way of looking into things in various parastatals before so that red flag can be raised before it collapses completely. With those few words, I beg to support."
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