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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Keroche",
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    "content": "every year. If you look at that, you see how much money is supposed to be left at Nakuru County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you look at the Natural Resources (Benefits Sharing) Bill No. 6 of 2022, it does not include geothermal plant as part of the natural resources to benefit under the Bill. I request this Bill to be amended so as to include the geothermal plant as part of the natural resources. This will give Nakuru County an additional Kshs840 million. I will push for that amendment, so that our people can benefit because they supply 50 per cent of power in the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the other sad bit is that the area around the geothermal plant in Naivasha is dark at night. Therefore, I will also push to ensure that it also gets power. When we talk about lowering power tariffs, Nakuru County should be one of the counties that should benefit from low power charges because they generate that natural resource. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has said, being the Deputy Majority Leader of this House, it is also sad to see that the members of the Minority Side are not in the House. Some of us just came the other day in this House; it is our first time to be in this House. We enjoyed seeing the likes of Sen. Orengo in the previous Senate and the way the House was vibrant. Today, the Senate is one-sided. As the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, I urge the Minority Side to come to the House, so that we sit and agree. The people out there are watching us and they can see that one side of the House is all-empty, yet they were elected by Kenyans. The people whom they represent are wondering where they are. I will try and establish what is happening now. The vibrancy of this House that people like us came hoping to get is not there. We were inspired to come into this House, so that we also share and contribute, the way Sen. Orengo and others were doing to this country. We thought we would come and join hands together all of us, so that we can push this country to the next level. The differences we have will not add; it will only spoil for the people outside this House who are watching and looking at us. The international world is also watching and looking at this House. This is an ‘upper’ House, which everybody depends on legislating laws to bring the cost of living down. We are the ones to support the current Government in lowering of the cost of living through the laws that we legislate in this House. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you and I support the Bill."
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