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    "id": 1223974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogolla",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would also like to add my voice to the Statement that has been issued by Sen. Nyutu. The story of the Last Mile Project could be one of the worst rip-offs we have had among the major projects in this country. The former Rural Energy Agency (REA) now Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) implemented this project in consultation with the Kenya Power. The project was so noble that each village in this country expected that at the end of the project, it would be connected to electricity. The implementers of this project were expected to connect each school and public facility that is a mile of a transformer to electricity. However, if you go around the country, you will find that in most of the primary schools where the transformers were taken to, are not operational because a major component was never fixed. If you were to take an inventory, half of the transformers and power lines into these schools, public facilities like hospitals and village polytechnics are not functional. Our people were very hopeful. However, to our amusement, a number of these projects on transformers have never been connected to the power grid. If you ask the officials of the Kenya Power in the regional offices or in the county offices, about the issue of connectivity, you will be told that a component of the transformer was left out. Sen. Joe Nyutu has asked for a status report of his county. However, it is prudent that we ask for a similar report of the whole country so that Kenyans can benefit from the last mile project. It only leaves us with the conclusion that this was a scandal. Why would we have transformers taken to school, yet they are not connected to the power grid. Most of the school officials are always running to Kenya Power offices every other week; spending public funds in efforts to look for ways in which those transformers can be energized. However, if you went to the root cause, you would find that parts of the transformers were not fixed. This could be the reason why the noble project that was proposed by the former regime including the school laptop project did not take place. ‘ I support."
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