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    "id": 682775,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Clause 9 of the Bill says that if you want to be a Director-General, then you must have 10 years working experience in the same industry. We need to understand the aspect of experience. For instance, if I serve in Parliament for 40 years, one might think I am a better debater than a person who has been here for one term, but that person might be a better debater than me. Is experience just a condition placed under Clause 9 of the Bill without looking at whether it will improve services of the institution and yield some fruits? As we improve our aviation industry, we should look at that aspect. The security aspect has also been mentioned. It is very sad that in the recent attack in Ataturk Airport in Turkey, the terrorists went all the way to where the travellers were. At the airport, there should be some distance before you get to the booking level. So many people were killed in the recent attack at Ataturk Airport. Improvements should take into consideration the fact that airports are now targets from terrorists. This is meant to interfere with the smooth flow of a country’s security. Airport safety should be our priority. These days, if you want to improve certain institutions, it is prudent that money collected by the institutions is left there. We need to be very careful. As we create a Fund for an institution, that Fund must present its budget to Parliament for approval through the National Treasury. If we allow institutions to collect and retain money without approval, we will be encouraging corruption. I would like to thank the Chief Justice because I wrote to him and he stopped county courts. Counties were collecting money from those courts. That was the case and yet that money was supposed to be reallocated to the counties. If we allow that to continue, we will encourage corruption. All public institutions should get their votes from Parliament through their respective ministries or Government departments so that we can curb corruption. I do not want to repeat what has been said. I am a Member of the Committee on Implementation and the San Marco Space Station in Malindi, an institution managed by Italians has a lot of information on civil aviation, air control and navigation. This is the case and yet we do not get this information as a country. That information is sent somewhere and we have to purchase the same information. We have been trying to get the Cabinet Secretary in charge of that to tell us what the agreement says. It is unfair for us to purchase information concerning air navigation and yet it is coming from our country. It is very expensive and we get nothing in return. I support."
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