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    "id": 1056981,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Outa",
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        "legal_name": "Fredrick Otieno Outa",
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    "content": "Company. Today, even as you want to bring an alternative solution to have enough power for this country to grow, you will not be able to break that cartel. If the Chairperson of the Committee is listening, I would like to tell him that if you go for an alternative license, you will not get it because Kenya Power has already given them out. I personally brought people here, they did a survey in Kisumu and they came up with an alternative like the windmill that can produce a lot of power and the extra will be channeled to the main grid. Up to date they have never got a license. Another group came in to do what we call solar power. They did a survey at Awasi. They found a station so that they could have enough for Western Kenya, but up to date they have not been licensed. There is a cartel in Kenya Power Company and I want the Chairperson to go deeper, not only to the outages of the supply of power, but dig dipper and come up with all the names of cartels within Kenya Power because they are comfortable, you cannot move them. They think that they own Kenya and they do not need advice from anybody. In the village area where my home is, if the power goes off, you are going to have a blackout for months. They cannot even afford to replace the poles when the wind blows them down. Kenya Power is comfortable in their zone, but it is a high time that we wake them up so that we get rid of the Kenyans who have embedded themselves as cartels to allow us develop this county. I thank you because this alternative is what we need in order to make progress. This is the only thing that will awaken Kenya Power Company. If we do not push to find out who these people are, those who are given this license and who cannot give them out so that they are given a timeline in that if anyone has already been licensed and cannot come up with investment, they should be given timeline. Therefore, we will be able to rescue Kenyans who need power to develop this country. I thank you."
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