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    "id": 917639,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/917639/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "This practice to establish National Shipping Line in partnership with other agencies is not unique to Kenya. It is a global phenomenon. It is an exercise which enables Government agencies to collaborate with other partners. In this case, to collaborate with Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) who have already established other companies and tested shipping routes. This one increases the shipping routes and the networks, and thereby creates competitiveness in the global and regional shipping markets. If we do not do this, then we have no business in expanding the Port of Lamu. The Port of Lamu is supposed to be a trans-shipment hub. The President of Kenya told Salva Kirr that he would give them 10 acres at Naivasha Economic Zone. We have told President Museveni we will give him land. All this is to make sure that the ports of Mombasa and Lamu become hubs. With that in mind, we must have KNSL as a key player in all this. I am proud as a country that we have a shipping line with our flag. Why do we have shipping lines with other countries’ flags? We want to have a shipping line. This is a factor in favour of Kenya. For the foregoing reasons, I recommend that the new Subsection 16(1)(A) be deleted and substituted with the following new provisions which the President is recommending. It means provisions of subsection (1) shall not apply to a shipping line owned or controlled by the Government. Because we have 54 per cent of KNSL, it does not apply. This cannot apply to Maersk Seaside, PLC or other shipping lines. It applies to KNSL. Lastly, MSC bought their share of the KNSL in 1997. The story going round that some people have bought some shares in two years or three years… A time will come when we must act as a House in the interest of the nation. I am sure if I was a Member of Parliament from the Coast region and, more so, Mombasa, this could have been a very good opportunity for me to accept it because it is an opportunity for my people to get jobs like being crew liners and others. When the ports expand and KNSL becomes big, their office will be in Mombasa. They will employ the people of Mombasa. Hon. Sherrif Nassir and my other colleagues, we are not doing anything mischievous. This is for the interest of the nation. I beg to move."
}