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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my supplementary answer I had touched on the supplementary question asked by Sen. Madzayo. I confirm and agree that what Sen. Madzayo has raised is true. This is an important and critical airport for the kind of tourist destination that we are talking about of Malindi in Kilifi County. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for the Government to address the concern Sen. Madzayo has raised. The challenge in Malindi is not infrastructure development. It has been more the runway expansion. On the front side of the Malindi, there is a very high population that has been very expensive to resettle, but we must resettle them if we will expand this airport. We will do that. The other challenge is a road on the other side where the airport would cut through the Mombasa-Malindi Road. So, there is a lot of attention. We rely on tourists as a major GDP contributor into our economy ---"
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"content": " Hon. CS, I think the question was, there are private investors who are willing to put their money in the expansion of Malindi Airport, but your Ministry seems not to be in sync with these investors. What is the problem? That is what the hon. Senator has just asked."
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"content": " The straight answer, which maybe is not coming out very clear, is the project affected persons. What investors will not do is to do land compensation. We do not wish to basically concession the 1.4 kilometres. We want to expand to 2.4 kilometres."
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"content": "Thank you and sorry about that. Hon. Speaker, the straight answer is that we will embrace investors to come in, but the biggest challenge is the land compensation. This is because, like I said, to be able to bring big planes into Malindi, some of the charters, we need to extend the runway to 2.4 kilometres. That is the primary challenge. If we were to concession the airport and give away to an investor to rebuild Malindi Airport at the current 1.4 kilometres, we would not have corrected the challenge. We need to expand the runway to be able to land big planes. So, the priority which is top on my desk is to do land compensation, and I think we are doing significantly well. Like I said, I just visited that airport not very long ago, I think in the last three months and I met the leadership on the ground. The aim of the visit was to address the question of expansion of the runway. Putting up a modern building is not a big challenge. Recarpeting that second runway, which is in state of disrepair, is not a big challenge, but we need to get it to 2.4 kilometres. Therefore, the big challenge to bring investors is more of the land acquisition and paying the project affected persons, so that we can expand and bring the big planes, which today would land in Mombasa and transport the tourists by road. So, allow me, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "hon. Members, to basically refocus the land compensation, acquisition and therefore the expansion of the runway. I thank you."
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"content": " We shall now move to question No.3. We have spent 22 minutes on this Question, and we had allocated only 15 minutes. We have six more questions to go. Proceed, Sen. Sifuna so that we ---"
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"content": "I think hon. Chair ---"
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