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    "id": 615293,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me start by complimenting the Committee, headed the very able Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o. KQ was doing very well before privatization. In 1995 or 1996 there was a decision to privatize, which also brought the KLM strategic partner. Kenyans thought that besides the concept of a strategic partner coming in with some money, they would, perhaps, come in with some expertise, which will check some of the excesses that we are seeing in the management of KQ. The bulk of the Report surrounds decisions by the board. It becomes difficult to distinguish bad decisions of the board, which come from incapability of the people in the management or bad decisions because of fears of one type or the other. KQ are happy to write on the airplanes “the pride of Africa” which we have been proud of for a long time. But if you look at the origin of this and the Report of the Committee, what is ailing KQ is wild expansion; establishing routes all over Africa, buying aircraft left, right and centre without caring whether or not there are passengers on those routes. I believe that many of us in this House have had occasions to be on KQ flights on some of those routes. You will find that the passengers on the planes on some routes are hardly a quarter or a third of the sitting capacity. This means that no proper survey or scrutiny of those routes vis-a- vis the competition which is there had been done. It also did not go with the service. 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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