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    "id": 589816,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the instability of power supply, particularly in the western parts of this country from Busia, Siaya, Kakamega, Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, West Pokot to Turkana is very frequent. Sometimes, we get blackouts for as long as ten hours or a whole day and these have caused a lot of havoc to businesses and home appliances and inconveniences to schools. Since they were connected to the grid, they gave away their generators and rely on grid power for students to study and do their laboratory tests and so on. In his response, the distinguished Senator from Taita-Taveta said they are replacing wooden poles with concrete poles. Could he tell this House whether a replacement of wooden poles with concrete poles on its own can strengthen and create reliability in power supply? Those are just transmission mechanisms. There cannot be a scientific reason for telling the House that, that will give stability to power. But more importantly, could he tell the House when all schools and institutions of learning will be connected to the national grid in all these areas that I have cited and indeed, the rest of the country? More importantly, what clear measures are being taken to stabilize power supply so that the blackouts that we get so regularly become a thing of the past?"
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