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    "id": 954758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/954758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "There are some surprises in this Report. Just the other day, the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing brought us a very good Report after analysing what is happening with Kenya Airways (KQ). It recommended that we should nationalise KQ which requires massive investment of public money to pay off the current investors and loans. KQ appeared before the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and made some recommendations that there are some taxation measures that can help them to be competitive in line with international best practice, including the recommendation that was made by the International Civil Aviation Authority. These are exemptions that had been granted to KQ in my time. They were removed here when we reviewed the VAT in 2013 which has led to some of the problems that KQ has. But the Committee in their analysis came out with a very peculiar conclusion that it rejected the proposals by the KQ. A proper analysis of the aviation industry was necessary in order to assess the exemptions that can be effected in the industry. Who is going to do this analysis? The Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing already did the analysis and said that we need to save Kenya Airways. It just shows that perhaps in this House we are working on a silo basis or at cross-purposes. One Committee says we save KQ while another one says we should not save them. This is something we probably need to do before the final amendment, so that the two Committees sit together and see if there is something that they can do in this interim stage through the Finance Bill by adopting some of the recommendations they made, for example, to make KQ be at par with other airlines. They suffer when they go out there, but when other airlines come here, they do not pay the same costs that KQ is forced to pay at home. I do not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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