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    "id": 1224873,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1224873/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gem, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Elisha Odhiambo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion by the Woman Representative for Laikipia on the management of the cost of electricity in this country. I think it is only in Kenya where we have beaten the law of demand and supply. Anybody would imagine that if there was high supply and low demand, prices would be lower. If there was high demand and low supply, prices would be up. To trace my steps, the country was producing 2,300 Megawatts by 2017. We are currently producing 2,900 megawatts. Consumption of power in 2017 when mama mboga was cooking in the evening was 1,757 megawatts. Currently, the consumption has grown to 2,243 megawatts. What does that tell us? It tells us that consumption or absorption of power by ordinary citizens is growing. If we do not check, we may end up with more demand than supply. I think KP needs to wake up. The Government needs to put its foot down to restructure KP so that it meets the needs of the citizenry. KP has had four different managing directors during the last four years. This should indicate something; that either the Ministry was sleeping on the job, or that the management of KP was plagued by politics. At the last leadership exit at KP when the lady left, we raised it in our Committee, and there was a conflict of interest. She was the Director-General (DG) of the East African Development Bank (EADB)."
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