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    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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    "content": "philosophy so that when we come to Mombasa, it will be all raha as we leave the stress in our constituencies. I have fond memories of Mombasa. The warm weather and the humidity makes the bodies relax. I hope you will continue with the same mantra. Clean up the garbage as you drive from Central Business District (CBD) all the way to Nyali. I wish you all the best and I am sure you are equal to the task. I have no doubt about it. The ODM only attracts the best and the best are always found in ODM. The rest go to other places where they accept mediocrity. However, in ODM, we only deal in meritocracy and people who perform and that is why many of the places with ODM have always had the best brainpower. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, coming to the subject matter at hand, Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, if you recall some years back, it became eminent that Kenya has a serious shortfall of electricity or power to run the various domestic and commercial activities. All the years we have continually complained of high electricity costs in this country. Therefore, all efforts have been done in the past 20 or 30 years to reduce the cost of power and look at green power, friendly and less environmentally damaging to the environment. So the mooting of the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project was a good idea. However, as has always been typical case in this country, in any good idea there will always be devious people looking for ways and means of making illegal income or illegal funds. As we stand here today, it is amazing that it took 30 months for the money to be refunded. I believe the interest earned needs to have been explored to find out where that interest went to and who pocketed it. In addition, indeed, what was the intention of overpaying? It is typical that before you enter into a contract of this nature, there are some basic background checks you need to do. You need to take risk assessment and risk evaluation so that you put into place mitigation measures. It is inconceivable that a body like KETRACO could have failed to do this, unless it was driven by some ill motive and that has always been the case. I just hope in the next Parliament, the Committee on Implementation, together with EACC, will follow up on the recommendations of the Committee and deal decisively with this matter. Moreover, I like the way Baba has put it very clearly that the greatest disease in this country is not lack of resources, economic models or propaganda or the rest. It is the fight against corruption. If, indeed, we can fight corruption and that kind of mentality that I, as someone overseeing public resources, must always get my cut, then we would move this country very far. We would not need any sloganeering. We simply need to infuse into our people, those who hold executive positions that, when you hold that executive position, it is a position of trust and you hold it in trust for the people of Kenya. You must give them value for money. For whatever shilling we spend, the multiplier effect must be positive and not negative. 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."
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