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    "id": 1230912,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1230912/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First, I want to thank my neighbour, Hon. Jane Kagiri, for bringing this Motion on the reduction in cost of electricity in the country. It is true that all of us receive electricity bills every month either as industrial consumers or as individual consumers. In that bill, you will find items that customers are charged. One of them is the cost of diesel because Kenya entered into an agreement with private energy producers who have installed generators in many parts of this country to feed power to the national grid. The cost of diesel is very high and it has continuously been passed to the consumers. Time has come for the Government of Kenya to relook at all the private arrangements that were entered into long time ago that continue to cause suffering in terms of payment of bills to the population of this country. The cost of electricity is high because there is a lot of operational expenses incurred by more than five corporations. They are charged for the generation and distribution of power in this country. My point is that the Government of Kenya needs to relook at the viability and effectiveness of all these State corporations. We have the Geothermal Development Company (GDC), KenGen, The Kenya Power and Lighting Company PLC (Kenya Power), Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) and private power producers. Time has come we started looking at the viability of all these corporations and asked ourselves whether they are necessary. Can they be consolidated? Can we reduce operation costs? The cost of maintaining some of these corporations is what is causing power bills to go up. My point is that the energy sector needs to be relooked at afresh. We know there is a lot of solar energy in this country; free sunshine. I ask the Government of Kenya to turn around and start looking at renewable energy as alternative"
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