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    "id": 696387,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gethenji",
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        "legal_name": "James Ndungu Gethenji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I raised this point at the weekend even before this matter appeared in our newspapers. It has been a sore concern to all Kenyans when our national carrier and strategic airline, which is meant to bring people to this country for the gains in the tourism industry and corporate business is in the hands of looters and thieves. The Kenya Government continues to pump money into the KQ to bail out the thievery and the looting that is continuing under the current management. The Government of Kenya, for almost four years, has been subsidising the systematic and wholesale looting and stripping of assets of KQ. As you have heard from the Leader of the Majority Party, the current management is nothing but a continuation of the supervision of the previous management of that systematic and wholesale looting. The Kenya Government must act now. It must capitalise the investment it has made by consistently pumping funds into KQ to bail it out of its loss-making position due to the mismanagement and corrupt practices of the management and rescind the agreement between KQ and KLM. This will enable us take the reign of the institution, the future and the prospects of the airline into our hands, because it is us who have interest in it and not the people who are using our money or taxpayers’ money to support their ill-gotten gains. Going by the things that were said earlier on, it is now apparent that the current and former management of the airline must be investigated and absolutely prosecuted in the public interest. I have said on this Floor that since we have precedent where public funds have been lost due to mismanagement, theft or suspicion of looting, the individuals should be taken to account, charges are brought against them and they are arraigned before court. How then can we watch KQ go down the drains, the National Treasury pump billions of shillings into the institution yearly and yet the current management continues to enjoy their salaries, positions, big houses and flash cars at the expense of the Kenyan taxpayer after stealing their money? That is a shame. That cannot be allowed. Even as we speak - I can tell this House - the CEO, Mr. Mbuvi Ngunze, is sending text messages to Hon. Members here in an attempt to coerce them and interfere with their independence."
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