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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this discussion. I have listened to my colleagues discuss this matter and I was fortunate enough to have been in the National Assembly with you 15 years ago when this issue was discussed. If you can remember, we discussed the same thing. We discussed how Kenya Power is basically a monopoly, how it has got cartels that have been controlling how it is managed, how they have transformers that are supplied either from China or India depending on who tenderpreneur who earned the tender. We have the transformers being brought, and normally, they are defective. At that time, we were discussing why Kenya as a country cannot set up even an industrial complex which manufactures transformers for the supply of electricity in our county, leave alone the wiring. Mr. Speaker, Sir, year after year, Kenya Power has had managing directors who have served. Some of them have pilfered money from Kenya Power and no prosecutions take place and so on. The other issue that I would like to inform colleagues is that the reason why at one time I was with the Committee on Delegated Legislation and my Chair is here. We were discussing the issue of how did we as a country allow private individuals to become independent power producers, who are using diesel which then they take this power and sell to the national grid. The same people who are the ones who have been selling electricity expensively to the national grid are the ones who control Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen). They are the ones who do not want to have us in this House come up with legislation that is going to make it easy for us to take solar energy which is cheape so that, we can then sell that power to the national grid and make sure that Kenyans have cheap electricity. I believe the people who stand and sit in this House are more intelligent, determined and engaged in trying to solve the problems of this country. I really hope that when the time comes for us to discuss how to solve the issues with Kenya Power and the supply of power generally in our country, leave alone electricity, we will sort out that issue."
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