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"content": "North Rift to deal with the problem of banditry. I have even proposed that we should move these Houses. If the Cabinet meets in Kapenguria and the Senate does its proceedings from Kapedo, then I can assure you that since they need to fortify and protect you as the representative of the people, those bandits would be sorted out in a matter of months. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the move. Let us see, as the SBC, how we can accommodate some of the views that have been given by our Members, that we try and increase the number of appearances on the ground, so that we can have more contact with the people. I am pleased to go to Turkana County as a Member of the Senate’s Committee on Energy. There is a live dispute under the Senate’s Committee on Energy involving the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, where a court decision has just been rendered for the land, where the project sits on, to be returned to the people of Turkana. It is a dispute that the Senate cannot avoid or ignore because, as you know, public land is land entrusted to our counties. It would be interesting for us to hear from the people themselves. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, these people make Petitions to us here in Bunge. As I have said, we are so far removed and enclosed in this cocoon. Sometimes, we cannot understand what the people are saying. You need to be there to see it. After the construction of that project, the people of Turkana are still off the grid. We, in the Committee of Energy, have engaged with this issue quite robustly. They do not enjoy the electricity that is generated in their own areas. I want to support this. We should do this in more counties. I wish we could go to Meru to see how our governor is going on after the decision that was made in this Senate. There are problems also in the South Rift, where the Speaker comes from - in Bomet, Nandi and Kericho - with the tea harvesting machines and the conflict with the people there. I wish that we could go there, so that we can also deal with those issues there on the ground. Lastly, I know that the Senate sits in Nairobi. However, this time around, do not leave us out of Senate Mashinani, the way that you did with the equalization fund. This is because Nairobi is not just here in the Central Business District (CBD). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a team that came from Mukuru Kwa Njenga to petition the Senate Committee on Energy about the lack of supply of electricity in that area. Therefore, next time, allow Nairobi to host Senate Mashinani . We do not just sit here, but go to the vijiji . Let us go to Ofafa Jeriko to see the issue of redevelopment of the city of estates. Let us go to Mukuru, and Mihango, so that the people of Nairobi do not suffer because we are your gracious hosts. I thank you."
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