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    "id": 1120653,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1120653/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "with unprecedented authority over the people of Kenya is bankrupt. How can a monopoly of an essential service be bankrupt? How can you explain that the KPLC whom we depend for our electricity and when you do not pay your bill, they come and disconnect your power and go away, is bankrupt? Some of us have suffered in the hands of the KPLC. In my own residence where I have been paying bills amounting to Kshs24,000, last month they gave me a bill of Kshs88,000 as if I run a factory. This is true of everybody else. Big factories like Bamburi have now switched from KPLC to solar power. By doing so, they are denying them revenue and as a result Kenyans are going to lose jobs. Instead of the CS, Energy coming here to answer those questions, he is busy averting a strike of the workers of KPLC. That strike would avert itself if the KPLC was working. They would not need any Cabinet Secretary to go and talk with the workers of the KPLC. The KPLC has a board of directors, management, they do not need a CS to go there to stop a strike. In any case, if it was a competition between going to stop a strike and coming to Parliament, which takes precedent? The answer is obvious. He must come before this House. I know that the chairperson ordered that summons be issued but the issuance of summons to the two Cabinet Secretary does not purge their contempt of Parliament. They remain in contempt. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to urge as I finish that the chairperson should be obligated to deliver the proceedings of this Motion today to the Executive so that they can see the outrage of the representatives of the people of Kenya over the conduct of our Cabinet Secretaries. What is shocking is that the two Ministers are our former colleagues in this Parliament. One was sitting where Sen. Linturi is sitting while the other was sitting where Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve sits. They are not strangers to Parliament. They have served in both the National Assembly and with us in this House. They should be the last persons we would expect to defy an invitation or summons to this House more so on a matter that has captured the outrage of the Nation. Everywhere people are talking about their inability to survive because when you touch fuel, you have hit public transport, manufacturing, lighting and virtually everything. Even this piece of paper will now cost more because of the escalating prices of fuel. The management of security services will be compromised because budgets have been set, they may not even have money to fuel vehicles to go to Laikipia and stop what is going on there. That is what we are facing. Therefore, I urge the House to find that the two offending Cabinet Secretaries stand censured and the censure has the effect of having a blot on their curriculum vitae, character, career or their future. This country must be run by responsive people; men and women who will deny themselves for the greater good of society. When a Cabinet Secretary (CS) takes a plane to go out of the country when his docket is on fire, that cannot be condoned by any reasonable Member of this House."
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