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    "id": 1195852,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1195852/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
        "slug": "sifuna-edwin-watenya"
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    "content": "The problem has been highlighted well by the Chairperson. In fact, this country entered into very expensive TECO pay deals with IPPs who rely on thermal energy to produce electricity and that is finishing our people. For instance, in Nairobi City County, the most critical case is Mukuru kwa Reuben people who rely on informal power connections because the former and current employees of Kenya Power (KP), especially at the Nairobi South Office, have forced them to do so. There is rampart theft of electricity equipment, including transformers and metres. There is simply no reliable electricity in Mukuru kwa Reuben. During the campaigns, we went there and we saw for ourselves. For every two minutes that a person receives electricity, five minutes are spent in darkness. Electricity is available for two minutes and disappears for five minutes. We could not even use our public address machines. We need a total review and overhaul of the energy sector. I am willing to support my Chairman and I am happy that I am a Member of the Committee on Energy. That should not continue. We had a discussion with Sen. Cherargei in the morning. He allocated some blame on some players in the energy industry, claiming that there were a few companies benefitting from the subsidies. I plead with this Senate that the person in Mukuru who has to buy kerosene now at Kshs152 does not know the companies benefiting from the subsidies. He only knows that he used to buy kerosene at Kshs127 because there was a subsidy. Let us cushion our people even as we fight against the cartels. In the meantime, that “Panadol” that Sen. Cherargei talked about can ease the pain of our people as we sort out the problem in this sector. I thank you."
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