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    "id": 1195874,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1195874/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Energy, transport and infrastructure are important conditions for sustainable growth. Kenya generates about 2,000 megawatts and I do not think that will take us to our desired position of being a truly middle-income economy. I urge the Chairperson to look at the distinction between policy implementation and oversight. As the Senate, our role will be to oversight the actions of the Executive and the actions of state players. I want to encourage the Committee on Energy to borrow a leaf from the Second Senate. That Senate set up a special inquiry into the affairs of Kenya Airways, which generated a Report that came to the Floor of this House. I would like the Chairperson to consider taking that approach. They can call all the IPPs, interrogate all the reports that are within this space and bring an actionable report before this House. The Committee on Energy can also look at the regulatory framework on the people who wish to put electricity into the national grid. There were some two investors in my county. One was setting up a 40 megawatts solar plant in Nyagwere Hills, the border of Homa Bay and Kisumu. He was frustrated by the regulators despite securing a lot of funding from the United State of America (USA) Government and that project did not kick off. We had another investor who set up a mini grid on Remba Island. That mini grid was shut down by the regulator because he had not followed some paperwork and they had not ticked some boxes. Let us have a regulatory framework that makes it easy, cheap and efficient for Kenyans to supply electricity in the national grid rather than one that favours the IPPs that have captured the state. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Statement."
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