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    "id": 1230927,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1230927/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Akuome",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, because of this high cost of business and production, and in particular manufacturing, a number of business people and industrialists have migrated from Kenya to other countries. This has resulted in dangerous results that will cause us to lose employment and cause us to transfer potential employment that we would have had to other countries. It is important that all efforts must be made to reduce the cost, and because of this, I highly support the Motion. I heard one of my colleagues referring to illegal connections. That is a direct result of the high cost of electricity. If you want electricity but it is purposely made impossible for you to get it, you are a human being and you will do whatever is possible to get it. Those who have illegal connections are doing so because they want to live like any other person. Let me also draw your attention to the independent producers of electricity. I am beginning to wonder whether these people are useful to Kenyans in the manner we expect, and in the manner they supply their energy to the national grid. We are told that these people are paid highly, but do they have their payments commensurate with what we get from them in terms of the energy they add to the national grid? It is important for them to be investigated in relation to their cost and benefit to this nation. This could be part of the high tariff costs that we are paying because the energy producer, Kenya Power, needs to recover its cost. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I highly support this Motion and thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute."
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