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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkei",
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    "content": "plant more than 15 billion trees, we need to zero rate the issue of solar products so that we achieve two things. The first one is to create competitiveness to the KP and the second one is about clean energy, which is under climate change. Our President and Party Leader and the Leader of this country is pushing for clean energy. How can we show good will if we do not zero rate solar products? I, therefore, request that we zero rate solar products so that they become cheaply accessible. If you go to the village nowadays, you will find that our people have bought batteries and a small solar panel for lighting and radio. We need to make them cheaper so that Kenyans can access them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am happy that nowadays, you can access solar products within the country. I would have expected the Committee on Energy to order KRA to zero rate all solar products for their easy access and clean energy in the spirit of President Ruto’s agenda on climate change. Fourthly, I know they have ordered a special audit, but they should have been specific. I am the Vice Chairperson of County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). You know my work because you have attended our sessions, especially when the Meru Governor attends. There are different forms of special audits. I would have expected the Committee to order a forensic audit because of impropriety. Secondly, there should be an Information Technology (IT) software audit because we need to be told whether these meters we use and their payment system have been audited. We need an audit report of the IT software used by the KPC because there were allegations of corruption years back. The third audit should be on governance. We need to be told whether KPC and other agencies such as the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) and KenGen are being run within the governance under the Company Act, Cap 408 (Laws of Kenya). I did not see that and I expect the entire Committee on Energy to be taking notes because I am making serious submissions that will change the intent and the character of this Report. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is the issue of EPRA and its role. The other day we all saw what happened in Embakasi. I am told that EPRA and some rogue Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers collude. They go and close gas plants in Ngara, Bungoma, Eldoret and others towns and cities. It is a collusion. The report should have recommended a clean-up of EPRA. There were lives that were lost in Embakasi. I am told this matter has been deferred to a later date. Here in Embakasi, the people who were arrested out of criminal culpability and negligence was because of regulation. There is a regulatory body called EPRA. We do not want to see EPRA when they are adding or removing one shilling for selling diesel or petroleum. There is more than that. This Authority must be relooked into. I would have expected them to order within 90 days structural governance reorganization of EPRA. We saw the former Managing Director get arrested for taking Kshs600,000 some time back and he went on to become a Member of Parliament (MP)."
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