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    "id": 1078586,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I need your guidance on this matter because I asked six questions. This is a matter of public interest. It concerns the high prices that Kenyans pay for electricity. My interest was in the independent power producers. I have been given a list of 19 independent power producers. One of them is more like a Government entity, namely, Lake Turkana Wind Power Limited. The other power producers are Tsavo Power, Rabai Power, Imenti Tea Factory Hydro, Thika Power, Gikira Hydro, Gulf Power, Iberafrica Power and Mumias-Cogeneration. This is a matter of public interest. This Committee has done a good job. The Government and, more so, the Ministry of Energy, has refused to answer two important questions. Under Article 117 on the powers and privileges given to Parliament and its Committees, Article 35 of the Constitution on access to information and the Powers and Privileges Act, this Committee, for the first time, has been denied answers to two important questions. The first one was on the directors and shareholders of the 18 independent power producers. I confirm that those directors and shareholders are big people. Some of them are in Government and others are in the energy sector. Second, I have asked for the contractual obligation that they have entered into with the KPLC. The Chair has been denied that information for the last three months. I refer to the last response which states that I should go to a court of law and get an order as the Member of Parliament for Garissa Township, so that those answers can be availed to me. Before you give direction, I say without fear of contradiction so that they can hear us that in 2019, the KPLC spent 15 times more money to buy power from the independent power producers, even compared to KenGen, which is a Government entity. In that period, KenGen was selling power to the KPLC at 4.6 cents per kilowatt hour. I will name four companies among the 19. Triumph Power Generating Company, whose directors’ names we have been denied, sold power to the KPLC at 69.2 cents per kilowatt hour. That was 15 times more expensive. Gulf Power, Iberafrica Power, Power Tech Solutions and Tsavo Power sold power to the KPLC at 26.3, 16.9, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}