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    "id": 960124,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/960124/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on its consideration of the Bilateral Air Services Agreements between Kenya and the Hellenic Republic; Kenya and Burkina Faso; Kenya and Cambodia; Kenya and Seychelles; and Kenya and Finland, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 6th June 2019, and pursuant to Section 8 of the Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012 approves the Ratification of the Bilateral Air Services Agreements between Kenya and the Hellenic Republic; Kenya & Burkina Faso; Kenya and Cambodia; Kenya and Seychelles; and Kenya and Finland. As Hon. Members have seen in our Report, in brief, these protocols or agreements are negotiations or permissions Kenya is seeking to have its planes fly to the countries I have mentioned. They are five agreements as indicated in our Report. The individual protocols are requests, in simple terms. For example, the Agreement between Kenya and Burkina Faso seeks to have our aeroplanes land in Burkina Faso and Burkinabe are also asking that their aeroplanes to land in our country. That is the meaning of these protocols. I am emphasising this, so that Kenyans and we, as a House, can differentiate between the amendment we had discussed earlier and this one. On this one, there was no agreement between us and the five countries and there were no planes flying to the countries I have mentioned. Of course, Kenyans have been going to Burkina Faso, but they might have been passing through other countries. Our aeroplanes, for example, land in Lagos because we have a bilateral agreement with Nigeria, and then travel to Burkina Faso. We are now seeking to have an agreement to allow direct flights to these countries. The protocols are also seeking to have direct flights from those countries to Kenya. This is something good."
}