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    "id": 960073,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. This is an extremely important Motion that seeks the ratification of the Protocol to amend the Convention of Offences and Certain Acts committed on Board Aircraft – the so-called Montreal Protocol. This is an important amendment because it gives control and power of management of unruly passengers and any other activity of that nature in an aircraft to the country where the aircraft will land and not just the country of the operator. Imagine if we were to stick to the old convention that stated that the person can only be dealt with in the country of the operator and people are mid-air and there is an unruly person, either the plane would have to fly back to the country of the operator or, if the aircraft landed for the safety of the patient and left the unruly person in another country, he would go scot-free. Perhaps, he would then have to be sent back. Air travel has actually globalised the world, and it is the most efficient means of transport across countries. Technically, air travel is the safest means of transport, much safer than road transport. In fact, statistically, you are safer from any technical error in a plane than in a hospital. It means it is very unlikely that a technical error will occur in a plane to jeopardise the security of a patient much more so than in a hospital. This is due to the very strict standard operating procedures in airlines that are really adhered to and are amended from time to time when there are any new events. This safety is because of that strictness and diligence. Any small event in the air is likely to cause some major disaster. In these days of terrorism, terrorists have adopted systems that do not even need the weapons that we look out for and a mere disturbance in a cockpit is likely to make a plane crush. We even know of suicidal persons who have tried to use airlines to commit suicide and kill with them large numbers of people. It is therefore mandatory that there is need for fast and diligent action, not only in the airline, but also to countries where the airline may decide to land at the time of such an event."
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