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    "id": 1134110,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Those that are devolved are not being budgeted for and resourced at county levels. Instead, the money is left at the national level. The Committee recommends that Senate must take and seriously deal with this issue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have been told of the debts that are bedeviling, first, the country. I will come to that. Let me deal with the issue of debts owed by Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) and Kenya Power. Hon. Senators must be invited to ask themselves how a monopoly like Kenya Power or KenGen can be debt ridden. How can Kenya Power that controls the distribution and supply of energy and electricity to Kenyans and dismembers any supply when a citizen fails to pay for a single day, be heavily in debt to the extent where it is now getting the attention of the Treasury and everybody else? It is pure and simple mismanagement. The reforms that have been put in place in re-organizing Kenya Power must go further and deeper, arrest the culprits, prosecute them and bring Kenya Power to where it was. There is not a single Member in this House who has not fallen victim of not only the mismanagement but also the fraud being committed by Kenya Power on its consumers, where they just decide and inflate bills to recover money that they have misappropriated so that wananchi can foot and underwrite fraud. This is not acceptable and this House must again take a very serious view on this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya Airways has a choking Kshs80 billion debt. Kenyans must start asking themselves, if this is what Kenya Airways is doing to our economy, do we still need an airline? If we need one, do we need to own an airline that cannot"
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