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    "id": 960071,
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    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I hope he has not eaten into my time. I support the amendment that has been brought by the Committee on transport. If this amendment goes through, it will be one of the best things that this House will have done because all of us travel in one way or another. I must say that I once experienced an unruly passenger on an aircraft, and the experience was not very nice. The attendants had very little to do with him. He was on transit. The world is globalised with people traversing from one continent to another and from one country to the other. It is important that issues of security in airborne aircraft are taken care of. Passengers aboard aircraft should not think that they are free to do what they want to do without it being taken as an offence. The crimes which happen aboard aircraft could be many. We are living in a world where acts of terror can be executed anywhere. It can be at the airport or when we are aboard aircraft. Even when people have been scrutinised or checked seriously and certified that they do not have any weapons, some people can decide to even use their hands to hurt others. So, the Montreal Protocol of 2014 and its amendments are worth being done. It is important that the measures taken to curb transnational crimes committed on land are also applied on board passenger aircraft so that people are convinced that when they travel nobody can step on their feet because such would-be assailants think that nothing can done to them. So, I support the amendment. It is important that the Departmental Committee on Transport goes ahead and brings forth these amendments so that when we travel, we feel safe and protected because we know that offences committed aboard aircraft can be prosecuted. Somebody will hurt or offend someone else without being taken anywhere. Even as they do this, I also would suggest that on the same we have issues of health which also affect people in aircraft. It is important to also look into that aspect. One time when we were travelling with Dr. Nyikal, somebody collapsed in the aircraft. There was no doctor. There was nothing that could be done. Having known that we were with Dr. Nyikal, I ran to him very fast so that he could try and save the patient. Later on, I discovered that such action has some legal implications. Dr. Nyikal was very uneasy to assist because in case of anything, he would have been blamed. So, as the Committee does this, let us look at the health of the people aboard aircraft so that we see how best they can be handled when we have emergencies. Therefore, the Chair and the Committee on transport may continue amending this protocol so that we may get things that befit us while travelling. With those remarks, I support."
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