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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": "Hillary. I meant to say Hon. Vincent Musyoka. I have seen him in the House. Chairman, I am sorry for referring to you as Hon. Munyaka. We have been working with the Chairperson, Hon. Vincent Musyoka Kawaya. We will provide schedules for all the public institutions in all the constituencies through the Clerk of the House. This is for Members to help us confirm public institutions that have not been reticulated with power. We will then work together to provide adequate budget so that in the next two years we will have finished powering all our schools and health centres for the benefit of the citizenry. The other question by Hon. Jessica is to outline the measures that the Ministry has put in place to either service or replace dysfunctional and obsolete solar PV systems that were installed to provide uninterrupted power supply to various public institutions in the country, and particularly Kibwezi East Constituency, especially primary schools where power is critical for supporting the digital learning programme. Hon. Speaker, REREC has a total of 4,870 primary schools which are installed with PV systems. This project has been in existence for eight years now, since the first ones were installed. Hence, most of the systems are due for maintenance. Cumulatively to date, a total of 1,787 solar PV systems have been maintained and another 156 are currently being maintained. The REREC is carrying out continuous scoping of primary schools for maintenance subject to budget availability. As I said, we will work together to ensure that we have adequate budget to reticulate where there is no grid. More importantly, we will ensure that the solar PV systems that we installed are in good working order. We will work together to ensure that we provide adequate budget. I do not think it is enough to tell this honourable House that it is subject to budget availability."
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