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    "id": 696402,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for allowing me to contribute on this Motion. The other day I met a friend who was flying on KQ from London. He had gone to buy a Business Class ticket from the KQ Office in London. He was told to come to Kenya and go back to London on Business Class, it cost about US$5,000. So, he went to KLM and bought the same ticket for below US$2,000. He was put on the same KQ flight to Nairobi. Something is definitely amiss. How I wish the truth about KQ could come out. I know it cannot come out in two-and-a- half hours’ debate. I know Hon. Members are ventilating out of frustration and anger with the wanton theft that has gone on for years at KQ. It would be foolish not to assume that KQ can be made to be a functioning company without nationalising it. The State must correct the mistake it made. No country develops, with the exception of the United States of America, without a national carrier. There is no country without a national carrier. You cannot privatise. What happened to the Kenya Bus even in our City? Unscrupulous politicians--- Do you expect Nairobi to be a city without transport or with some rudimentary matatus ferrying Kenyans to work? When they go on strike, nobody goes to work and the effect on our economy is big. I once attended a rally in Arusha Stadium when the East African Protocol was being signed. I heard President Yoweri Museveni ask why it is more expensive for a Ugandan to fly from Entebbe to Mombasa than to fly from Entebbe to London even if we are serious about tourism. Something is definitely amiss. One of those things, because I have heard my friend, the Leader of the Majority Party, trying to deviate from facts, is that out of the fleet of 33 planes KQ owns, 90 per cent of them are owned by Naikuni and a certain family in this country. Ninety per cent of them are owned by Dr. ole Naikuni and a certain family in this country. That is not an airline. Even our 29 per cent ownership is unknown. Who do the companies which came to the fore and are registered in Jersey Island belong to? Where is the report of the investigation by Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o? We cannot sit here and lament when we can get the facts. We must know that there are people sitting in office today who are enjoying the downward spiral of KQ. I want to tell the House that all over, cargo services are privatised because they are tedious. When you come here to talk about such an issue and say that Hon. Raila and his family should explain--- Cargo business is not the core business of KQ. That is a side show because this company is not functioning. We must find out the truth. I recommend that Hon. Duale should not stop there. We should have a select committee---"
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