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    "id": 867679,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/867679/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Luanda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, the purpose of these kinds of agreements is that air transport has become the real way of people to communicate and meet because the world has become a global village. It is heavily regulated. One cannot visit another country without formal agreements between those two countries. People from one country can visit another country under a regulated and formal agreement such as this one. It is proper that Kenyans can now visit Bahamas, Jamaica, Jordan and Turkey under these protocols that we have entered into. This is the way of the world. They will expand the latitude within which Kenyans can operate in the world. I urge the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development and the Government of Kenya to look into a way to entice the entire Africa. That will enable us open the African air space to all Africans to fly without necessarily going into these kinds of protocols. A perfect example is the existing situation between Kenya and Tanzania where Kenya Airways feels limited in terms of the number of times it can access the Tanzanian airspace. The Tanzanian air operators are also limited in accessing the Rwandese airspace. Kenya Airways is limited in the way that it can operate in the Equatorial Guinea and access the Lesotho airspace and yet Africa is such a small continent. That is the reason the structure that the Kenya Airways runs is set up for failure. It cannot make profit because of the limited spaces that it can operate in. If all the air spaces in Africa were available for the operators to operate in without limitations, then these operators would make profit."
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