{"id":14229,"date":"2020-09-11T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2020-09-11T19:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T19:32:38","slug":"kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation","title":{"rendered":"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors:\u00a0Moses Nyamori and Roselyne Obala<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds over claims of inadequate public participation.<\/p>\n<p>MPs yesterday protested what they termed as a scheme to sneak in the contentious National Aviation Management Bill, 2020 &#8211; which seeks to make KQ a parastatal &#8211; without engaging key players in the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The protest forced National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi to order another round of the collection of views to prevent a possible court case.\u00a0Some of the members of the Transport Committee chaired by Pokot South MP David Pkosing said on the floor of the House that reports by some key stakeholders were not taken into consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Wajir North MP Ahmed Abdisalan, a member of the committee, said a KAA evaluation report was not considered by the committee. He claimed that the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) and Competition Authority of Kenya were also denied an opportunity to submit their views.\u00a0At least five members of the committee dissented from the report.\u00a0\u201cI am one of those who have dissented from the report.<\/p>\n<p>We are five in number. One of the reasons for dissenting is lack of public participation. The two days we were given, we were only able to sit for two hours,\u201d he said.\u00a0The protest against the report was triggered by Ruaraka MP TJ Kajwang, who claimed that LSK was denied an opportunity to air its views. Muturi consequently gave the committee three days to allow those with views to make their submissions.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-group readmore my-3\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIf public participation is raised at this stage, you are preparing the ground for its challenge in court. Therefore, even if you proceed to the second reading, the evidence is already in the Hansard. If some of your members have raised issues of public participation, the lesson learnt is that we should listen to those concerns,\u201d the Speaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors:\u00a0Moses Nyamori and Roselyne Obala AfricaPress-Kenya: The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds over claims of inadequate public participation. MPs yesterday protested what they termed as a scheme to sneak in the contentious National Aviation Management Bill, 2020 &#8211; which seeks to make KQ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[2179,876,603],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-kenya-airports-authority","tag-kenya-airways","tag-mps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-11T19:32:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"733\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"459\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-11T19:32:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\"},\"wordCount\":327,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kenya Airports Authority\",\"Kenya Airways\",\"MPs\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\",\"name\":\"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation - kenya\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-11T19:32:38+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg\",\"width\":733,\"height\":459},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/\",\"name\":\"kenya\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation - kenya","description":"The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation","og_description":"The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation","og_site_name":"kenya","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-09-11T19:32:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":733,"height":459,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation","datePublished":"2020-09-11T19:32:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation"},"wordCount":327,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg","keywords":["Kenya Airports Authority","Kenya Airways","MPs"],"articleSection":["all news","economy","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation","name":"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation - kenya","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg","datePublished":"2020-09-11T19:32:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The planned merger of Kenya Airways (KQ) with profit-making Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) yesterday ran into fresh headwinds","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/09\/kq_merger_runs_into_5f5a5e0674978.jpg","width":733,"height":459},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/economy\/kq-merger-runs-into-headwinds-over-public-participation#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"KQ merger runs into headwinds over public participation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/","name":"kenya","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}