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    "id": 1024306,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1024306/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": "House, all Members have disappointment from the former Rural Electrification Authority (REA). We have projects going on in our constituencies, but hardly any is complete. When they have transformers, they do not have poles. When they have poles, they do not have conductors. They need to do their work coherently, so that they finish at least a few projects instead of having hundreds of projects ongoing in our constituencies. The service of such kind of utility only makes sense when a bulb is lit in a house and not when you have electric posts all over. Two, in regard to the whole issue of State corporations, the Chair can bear me witness that in this country we have close to 260 State corporations. Some of them bring cash. Very few make money. Some are in sectors that are highly profitable, for example, we have Government of Kenya owned banks, majority owned or stake owned, which are making loses in a sector that is making money. We need to go back to Abdikadir’s Report, consolidate State corporations to have few of them, then make their management efficient. That will make sense. Lastly – I can see my time is over – is the issue of land. On this, I want to go against the Chairman and the seconder of the Motion. I have come across funny transactions, for example, KeRRA buying land from a public university. These kinds of transaction do not make sense. When a government entity needs land for public use, we do not need to subject ourselves to transactions as if we are selling land; we are only transferring. My take would be that all government land should be on one title."
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