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    "content": ", Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC), KPC, EPRA and all these institutions that they have been instructed to do one thing or the other. Therefore, it is important that the Standing Committee on Energy carry their baby into maturity. The second recommendation, which I agree with, is on the issue of thermal power plants. Those of us that have followed this conversation have noted the many times each Cabinet Secretary has come before this House and informed us of the cost to produce a kilowatt hour which goes to about USD0.40 or 0.05 or something close to that. I do not want to be specific about it because I do not have the figures off the top of my mind. However, it is about two times what it cost to produce on hydro, and perhaps 3 or 4 times what it cost to produce on other cheaper means like the geothermal. Why do we continue to be bound by contracts that are completely lopsided and only favor the investors in this area? This is something that we need to resolve as a House. I had expected that this Committee will guide us. This Committee boasts of very senior lawyers, including the assistance of the legal team of Parliament. It was my anticipation that they will guide the country through this Parliament. They could have told us what we are going to do with this particular contract. I do not believe that we are helpless the way this Report would wish to suggest in that particular regard. There is something that the people of Kenya can do. We have a contract that makes it so expensive for the ordinary citizens of Kenya to access power. Is it that this contract has no exit clauses? I thought every contract has conditions that if you feel it is no longer tenable or favorable to you, upon certain notices and such things, there should be ways and means of exiting. The same can be calculated and the Government should bear the cost of those that signed these agreements. However, to pass the same cost to the ordinary citizens and the poor people that we represent in this House is completely unfair. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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