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    "content": "me. After being appointed the Attorney-General, and as the Chairman said, the privatization of the KQ has been lauded as the most successful privatization process by the World Bank. If you came to visit me, you will see a plaque in my house giving me certification from the World Bank for my involvement and contribution to that process. I was a director for 11 or so years. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, to me, the KQ is special in many ways. The Report talks about many causes of how the KQ has come to be where it is, one of them being pricing. In order for the KQ to get out of the situation they are in, they have hiked the prices. I heard the Managing Director say that they have not hiked the prices, but they have done a structural change on the pricing. However, it has really gone up to the extent that on the route from Nairobi to London, many Kenyans and others are now choosing to go either by British Airways---. That means flying all the way to Amsterdam and connecting to London because of overpricing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the Kisumu-Nairobi route, even I myself, travel by Fly 540 because of the pricing that has gone up. So, the rise in pricing, instead of helping the KQ, it is taking them in the opposite direction. People are running away from the KQ because of the issue of pricing. I found that if I wanted to go to America by the KQ in business class, I only have to add about Kshs20,000 and I am in first class on Emirates which is very good service. So, that is an issue to be looked at, but I will not go into all those many causes. I just want to focus on one cause and this is Project Mawingu. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Project Mawingu which is on page eight of the Report, the Committee says that there was a deliberate attempt by the management to force a doubtful expansion plans of the airline despite expert advice against this. In other words, Project Mawingu was implemented contrary to the expert opinion against that. It goes on to state that Project Mawingu has caused the airline colossal sums of money and eventually, it is that project which has landed the company into unsustainable debt levels and a diminishing market share, both locally and abroad. The Committee goes further to state on page 20 that the deal of Project Mawingu is very questionable. It states that these contracts were chiefly responsible for the rapid and crippling deterioration of revenue and capital accounts of KQ."
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