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    "id": 1287136,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1287136/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to seek your indulgence to spend more time with my friend Sen. Lomenen to look at some of the data that has been submitted by all the Members of Parliament (MP) from Turkana County with respect to the status of public institutions and the programs we have, to ensure that the county has been fully covered. In terms of public institutions, we will run maximisations on some ratio of funding while we allocate funds to cover the public institutions in the counties that have been deprived maybe due to infrastructure challenges in the past. Certainly, I would like to spend time because we have all that data. Like I said earlier; we are going to fund programs so that when we get money---you know that when you have a budget allocated to a program it cannot be transferred to another project. With respect to Lorokwen which is just within Turkwel, I can confirm that sometimes we have built big projects and taken the huge amount of power we develop to load centers where there is a market for power and we do not pay attention to local communities from where the resources come from. As I said earlier, I am here with the two Chief Officers from Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) and Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). I want to look at a program where we do not just build a 220 Kilovolts (kV) substation. We do build such and bring down the power to the distribution voltages of 33Kilovolt-ampere (kVA) and 11kVA to serve the local communities. With respect to the challenges we are currently experiencing, it is not just in Lodwar but also in Marsabit. We had some challenges. One of the power diesel generators went off. It was supposed to supply the load capacity to the town. Currently, whereas the market in Lodwar is 2.8 Megawatts (MW) we are supplying 2.4 MW. One of the 650 MW diesel generators went down. We are working round the clock to make sure we replace it. On the issue of the International Bar Association (IBA) Africa, they moved out of the country. They are not in the country anymore. We brought new generators in 2013, the 2X1250KVA and 3X650KVA which are currently servicing Lodwar. One of the 3X650KVA is down and whereas you might see power outage, it is actually load shedding. We are supplying 2.4MegaWatts instead of"
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