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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will make very few remarks. I congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Anyang-Nyong’o and the entire Committee for a job well done. KQ is dubbed the pride of Africa; it ought to be the pride of Kenya. It has through time degenerated to the shame of Kenya and the shame of the region. This is an airline that if you compare with the importance of airlines to economies like what Emirates is doing to UAE what it has done to Ethiopia. KQ had all systems go; a monopoly, government supported, carrying our national name and literally with limited bound of expansion. I agree with the distinguished Senator for Busia that what the professor and his team have not fingered on is a recommendation for forensic audit and a possible criminal inquiry and subsequent prosecution for those who are culpable. In law, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you are a lawyer; you know we have a maxim that res ipsa loqitur . Things do not just happen; airlines do not just crumble, human beings cause them to crumble. Those who have done so must be held responsible. This airline, apart from enjoying a near monopoly in the region, the airline is obscenely expensive. If you take the local routes, take flight 540 to Eldoret, you pay KShs5,000 to Kshs6,000 KQ, you pay Kshs18,000 one way. From here to Kampala on KQ, you pay more than you pay on Ethiopia Airlines from here to China, it is extremely expensive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is so costly that you would want to believe that this airline is making astronomical and obscene profits yet we are told that the airline has deep holes that it is difficult to explain. If today you go to KQ, and the Chairman of the 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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