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    "id": 696466,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Kenta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to join my colleagues in supporting this debate. In fact, I am happy to see it on the Floor of the House. The first time the KQ issue was brought to Parliament was when it was before the Senate. I did not know what the Motion had to do with the Senate because I thought KQ is a national corporation. It has nothing to do with counties. Therefore, the Motion was misplaced and the delay has cost a lot. The loss is unimaginable because we are talking of about Kshs74.5 billion in four years’ time. That is really terrible. However, I believe we should look at the causes and remedies. The issue of blaming so and so and trying to politicise the issue is not the right thing. I believe when you talk about Naikuni or anybody else, they did not act alone. I believe, as a lawyer, that KQ had a Board of Directors. Board members are the ones who make decisions in the company, but not Naikuni or anybody else. We should not just blame people for the sake of political expediency and embarrassment. I believe KQ got into the hands of busy bodies, wheeler-dealers and people who were out to milk it dry. The first thing we should do is to form a select committee to investigate the issue and take action as far as recoveries are concerned and to ensure that anything that was illegally done is rectified. An example is the MOU between KLM and KQ. How do you have an MOU that is meant to exploit one of the partners? If you look at the KLM issue, you will see that they were out to destroy KQ to benefit themselves. The first thing that caused this is the sale of KQ shares to individuals and private entities when we knew this was a national enterprise. Parliament allocates money through the annual Budget. How do we allocate money to an institution or enterprise that has shareholders? How do we justify that? You are not the only shareholder, but we put public money there. Government shares should be increased to match what we put into the company through the annual Budget. We should then force out all other shareholders who are not beneficial to us. The other issue is on staff. You can never run an enterprise profitably when the members of staff are demoralised. There is a time they were on strike. We are now realising that they are hemorrhaging for the benefit of other airlines like the Middle East airlines. That is what we should stop. Even if we revived KQ and we have no competent staff, we will be doing zero work. The expansion of KQ was a terrible thing. As my colleagues have said, why should we not find out who owns these planes? If we do not, we are doing nothing. It does not matter who owns them, these are looters. We should stop destruction of Kenyan enterprises by greedy people who are using their political influence to demolish public institutions to enrich themselves and their families. These are evil people who should be exposed. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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