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    "id": 1380074,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Actually, this does not need us to say many things. I just want to agree with my colleagues. There is no institution in Kenya today – I am sure Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale will agree with me – that is more corrupt, disorganised, based on employing relatives and friends, buys transformers which are fake and where they inflate the prices of all the wires and equipment used than KPC. They change the price of the amount of tokens one is going to pay on a weekly or daily basis. Nobody can confirm how much money KPC collects on a yearly basis. Ever since I was born, I went to the university and became a Member of this House, this is the time I realised what cartel capture is all about. I believe that there is a cartel capture between KenGen, KPC and Geothermal Development Company (GDC). The Committee must go and do further investigations on what is going on. How have certain individuals ended up being majority shareholders in a state corporation where they are now billionaires? How many times have you seen people being told to plant trees because KPC will be buying the trees? People planted thousands and millions of trees. What happened after that? They came back and said they would be buying concrete poles. Then the contract is given to individuals who have already done a tender and made sure that the budget is accommodating the tender for which they will be supplying those concrete poles. It is a mess. I plead with the Committee and the Members of this House, to disband KPC and make sure we allow private companies to supply power. Let us test set the operational structures of these companies so that we can reduce the cost of power."
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