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    "id": 1224795,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1224795/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "like the one in Muhoroni. It produces about 35,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) only and it is supposed to supply Western Kenya and Kisumu which need over 200,000 kWh. It cannot produce all that. Whenever private institutions interact with public institutions, they ensure they incapacitate public institutions. We have been told that they make sure there is no evacuation. We have to use the one in Koru or Muhoroni, whichever place it is because we have no power lines in all the areas in Homa Bay and the neighbouring areas. The biggest one was in Lesos in Kisumu. This line cannot just be done. It was paid for and I thought it had been done, but it was not. These Independent Power Producers sabotage power evacuation so they are the only companies whose power is produced. The CEO for either KenGen or KP said that if they were to produce all the power, which they seemed to indicate they can, the cost of the power would be about four times cheaper. Why are we still having this? Hon. Temporary Speaker, the other thing that is worrying is that all these costs are transferred to the consumer. So, they do not care whether you are efficient or have a high mode of production of power. Whatever happens, the costs are transferred to the consumer. Why is it impossible? It is because we have a regulator, The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA), which is a weak regulator. It is not independent because it is subject to political manipulation. Given the price that they set for the IPPs and with the small production of about 20 per cent, they are controlling the whole industry of power in the country."
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