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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to recognise the most important and famous person currently in our country, Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, who has just walked in. I want to advise the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Security that when push comes to shove in the church, the church needs spiritual counselling and not police intervention. Some of these spiritual things cannot be dealt with teargas and guns. They are dealt with spiritually. I advise Hon. Ndindi Nyoro and Hon. Kamanda to go before a bishop or a pastor for prayers instead of engaging in such drama. I am also ready to pray for them. I support this Report in light of terrorism, drug and child trafficking. The medium of this trafficking is air transport. We need to globalise the laws dealing with passengers on board aircraft. I believe this is an idea whose time has come. If there is an unruly passenger onboard an airplane, he can only be dealt with by the country that the airplane is registered. We know that the world has become a global village. We travel to east and west of this world in few hours. We travel across many countries and our airplanes land in different countries. Sometimes emergency stops are occasioned by passengers who threaten the lives of their fellow passengers on board. Considering that some of these aircraft are big, carrying up to 400 passengers, the rights of rude passengers should stop where the rights of the other passengers start. We cannot put passengers who have paid to travel to various parts of this world for business, education or to visit their families at risk because of rude passengers. We cannot put their lives at risk because of one rude passenger who cannot be dealt with by laws of any country, but the laws of the country that an airline is registered. I commend the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing for coming up with this Report that approves the Ratification of the Protocol to amend the Convention on Offences and Certain Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Montreal Protocol, 2014). As a House, we should adopt it so that we are competitive in the world market. Apart from thinking about the fastest mode of transport, the world also thinks of the safest mode of transport. The people who travel by air are at great risk of being hijacked and being accompanied by drug traffickers. So, we should, as a House, support the Committee’s recommendations that the Chairperson has alluded to. They have followed all the requisite procedures before presenting them to this House. I support 100 per cent the ratification of this international instrument, so that many investors can come into our country. They will feel that we are part of the global village. Thank you."
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