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"content": "when Mama Mboga is cooking is 2,237 MW. This means we have a surplus. What the technocrats should ask themselves is how to create traction for the 600MW not in use so that we use it to lower the cost of electricity for the ordinary Kenyan at home. I urge the President to relook at the life-line program which he and former President Uhuru Kenyatta started where they were charging Kshs12 per Kilowatt Hour (KWh) for the ordinary Kenyan. We are here to ensure that Kenyans enjoy cheap electricity, and that the manufacturing sector becomes robust because we are able to create traction for consumption of our kilowatt per hour charge so that this country can grow. As we talk of lowering the cost of electricity, it is important to note that the country is investing in nuclear energy. Site characterisation has been done in Kilifi, but we have not had funding to establish a nuclear reactor there. The nuclear plant will help in having a robust health system in the country. A nuclear research reactor will help the country in the production of isotopes that are useful in cancer treatment and in research of both agriculture and medicine. Diseases like COVID-19 and Ebola will have ultimate technological solutions to help the country manage the menace. It is important that as we focus on issues to do with the cost of living. We should also focus on issues that will help sustain lives in the long run. The President talked about healthcare, which is a good thing. From a county development fund and a county perspective, we need to have a formal framework where the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) cover at the constituencies is not duplicated at the counties. As Members of Parliament, we need to decide whether NHIF will be given at the county or at the constituency level. Last but not least, the President did not talk of how he was going to stabilise the shilling. I expected he was going to encourage those who have invested their money abroad to bring it back to the country thus giving the thieves an opportunity to bring back money into the country. I am certain that in the last Cabinet, there must be cabinet secretaries who shipped their money abroad. In the near future, I expect that there will be traction for them to bring the money back so that the shilling can stabilise. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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