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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to be very brief. I want to thank Hon. Keynan. For some of us who are doing our final leg in this Parliament, one of the individuals who has made a big mark in my life as I leave Parliament and in my later life is Hon. Adan Keynan. I am not saying it because he is here but I do not think there is any Chair of a Committee that is so committed to doing their work like Hon. Keynan, who is my friend, brother and uncle. As you embark on the next journey of your life, that commitment is what this country needs. Having said that, the airport has become a gang of cartels. This is the first major attempt to rid the airport of cartels. When you walk through any international airport, it gives you a sneak preview into that country. The JKIA has been overrun by a gang of cartels. All the brokers, conmen and drug traffickers have their stations at JKIA. If we are to be a respectable nation, we must rid the airport of these cartels. These are crooks who masquerade as business people but are nothing more than international conmen preying on unsuspecting victims. I was reading a story the other day of conmen who sit at JKIA because they know that some tourists who come to give us money to support essential services in our country know very little about our country. They con them by giving them outrageous rates in terms of taxi fares. This is not good for our country. People have become billionaires not through honest labour, but through cheating others, conmanship and stealing from people like you and me who dedicate every day to honest labour to feed our families. We must rid JKIA of these cartels and it starts with organisation. The JKIA has a facilities manager called “Kenya Airports Authority (KAA)”. If there are shops in that Airport, they should be managed by the facilities manager. The status of the KAA as a facilities manager has been so elevated that today, under the regulators - the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority - we have a situation where an operator is bigger than a regulator. The elevated status of KAA must be seen in the orderliness with which business is conducted not just at JKIA but in all our airports - whether international or domestic. For those of us who have travelled, and Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you have travelled to many countries of the world, you know the airport is a synopsis of the country. With no disrespect meant to our colleagues in that country, I travelled through Bangladesh International Airport. If you look at the condition of that Airport, you can clearly see what country you are walking into. The JKIA must reflect the aspirations of the people of Kenya. We start by ridding it of these thieving cartels who are up to no good other than besmirching the name of our country. I support the Motion."
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