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    "id": 1242447,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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        "legal_name": "Zipporah Jepchirchir Kittony",
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    "content": "to sort out that challenge. The same problem is obtained in Marsabit and we are addressing that. Sen. Gataya Mo Fire, for Tharaka, I indicated that we are comprehensively looking at how to quickly bring equitable power delivery to the people. I will need to do more work for Tharaka Northern Chuka Area. More importantly, we have a fairly segmented energy sector. One which generates, one which transmits and one which off takes and distributes power to the people. That is the Kenya Power Company. So, with this fairly good vertical integration, we know the responsibility of transmission is with or rather with the Kenya Transmission Company (KETRACO). The responsibility of generation is with Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) and a number of the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and the responsibility of distribution is with KPLC We also have a social responsibility with Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) to provide power and accelerate access to power to all our villages, public institutions through 100 per cent Government funded project. We are looking at restructuring the balance sheet of KPLC to concentrate on offtake and establish that they support the Last Mile Connectivity. This is because they work very closely with REREC under some very clear arrangements. Lately, we realized that some transmission assets worth about Kshs20 billion, which ordinarily should be in the books of KETRACO, are in KPLC. So, KPLC are struggling to maintain assets, which they should not be maintaining because their portfolio is not in transmission but to offtake the power generated and distribute. So, they deal with 11 Kilovolts (KV) lines, 33 KV lines and the lines that get to our houses. We are correcting that and getting KPLC to be fairly more solid in terms of its balance sheet, so that they can do all the things, including providing those transformers that Sen. Gataya Mo Fire talked about. With some little time, we should be able to--- In fact, there is a tender which is just closing in a short while to provide transformers. I know it has been a challenge. We should be able to get transformers in a short while to address that challenge. Sen. Wakoli, yes, we have enough employees in the sector. It is more of an investment. Like I said, if we streamline KPLC, which is a listed company, and address certain governance issues, KPLC is 50.1 per cent owned by Government and 49.9 per cent owned by Kenyans and other investors through the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE). We need to address governance issues because investors who have put their money in KPLC, need return on their investments. Therefore, we want to see a company that is commercially trading and having return on the shareholders, but more importantly, serving the purpose for which it was established."
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