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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": "As per our records, there are 141 primary schools in Kibwezi East unless we have recent additions. Out of these, 95 primary schools are on the grid according to our records and 38 are on solar PV system. Ten schools comprising eight primary schools and two secondary schools are yet to be connected but are being designed for consideration subject to budget availability. A total of 38 primary schools are installed with solar PV systems, as per the table appended in my Appendix. Out of these, 14 have been maintained and are in good working conditions. The remaining 24 primary schools await maintenance. The maintenance programme in the constituency is prioritised based on availability of budget. I confirm that my team, REREC and I are working to ensure that we provide budgetary allocation for maintenance. I appreciate that most of the questions from the House deal with the life of the Solar PV, which have died. We need to maintain them. We will provide budget allocation in our planning so that we have consistent maintenance of those solar-powered schools so that they do not run out of power. As stated earlier, some of the projects in Kibwezi East are in the design and survey phase. We will complete them… Hon. Speaker, allow me to make a general statement that cuts across most of the Members’ concerns. The REREC has done a great job. We appreciate that the Members of this House have been very supportive to the extent of putting a matching fund in support of REREC in accelerating the development of the Last Mile Connectivity Programme. We will work with Members to confirm the outstanding public facilities in your constituencies. I had a meeting with the Departmental Committee on Energy that is chaired by Hon. Victor Munyaka. We are working on schedules for all public institutions, for every constituency, to audit those institutions that have not been reticulated with power to date. We need to work together to provide adequate budget to this. In this financial year and the next, we should finish providing power to all our public institutions. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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