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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "The second point is that when all of us got tired of talking about Kenya Airways, we formed a Select Committee. It is when we discovered what the problem of Kenya Airways was. It was mismanagement and looting by the group of Mr. Titus Naikuni and Mr. Mbuvi Ngunze. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what nobody is going to say is that KPLC is overwhelmed by faulty transformers brought here by tenderpreneurs. They will never tell you. In Makueni County alone, there are 300 failed transformers. By the time they replace those transformers, people are running for months without electricity and schools are suffering. This cost is being transferred to teachers and parents because they have to pay for the cost of generators. The third one and the most important is that any company that attempts to get a license for alternative energy, they get hell on earth in the Ministry. This is because the Ministry officials are protecting cartels. That is where the problem is. I know somebody who is prepared to do solar energy in Makueni County. However, even to get an appointment to do so, he cannot. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must interrogate this issue. The wind power from the projects that are in Turkana, Ngong Hills, et cetera . You do not even know where this energy goes to. I had the privilege through an organization in Germany of the First Chancellor. I went with Sen. Were and Sen. Kinyua. The Germans have figured out this problem. They have hectares and hectares of wind power and hectares and hectares of solar power. One windmill is enough to deal with this sort of problems. Mr. Speaker, Sir, however, what Sen. Linturi is saying is correct. You know Sen. Linturi professes to be a hustler. He can afford a generator. His generator is Kshs2 million or Kshs3 million and he can pay fuel of Kshs30,000 or Kshs40,000 a month. The real poor Kenyan cannot even afford a lamp. The welders and the people who are doing small little things cannot weld. Markets are dead. If we are going to actually promote the things that are happening in the countryside, it is to get to the bottom of the operations of KPLC. You should not call the Cabinet Secretary (CS) here quietly. I know the Chairperson is a very polite man. He is an extremely polite gentleman. He has been here for a long time and he knows. He is going to be so nice to the CS and his Principal Secretary (PS) when they come here. Let us interrogate the energy sector through not only non-provision of power, but also why we cannot license private companies to provide alternative sources of energy. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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