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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the issues that have brought about a lot of good things in this country is that of rural electrification. I know that in my own constituency, prior to 2007, the coverage of it was very little. As I speak today, we are covered adequately, thanks to the Ministry. I know that if we continue doing that, by the year 2012, as they say, they will have covered all areas in every constituency. I would like to touch on geothermal power production. I am happy that I heard the Minister say that they have started a geothermal development company, which will be funded through the Budget. That is a plus, because I know that geothermal potential in this country is completely under-utilised. I know that in the Rif Valley Province, the capacity that we have, as the Minister said, is about 7,000 megawatts but, currently, we are exploiting about only one per cent of that potential. I know that the business of geothermal power production is extremely expensive, but I believe that going through the issue of the development of this new company, we will be able to achieve our objective. Even if we take a long time, at the end of the day, we will do much better. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to appeal to the Ministry of Finance to look for more funds and grant them to this particular Ministry. I know that the confidence we have in the Minister for Energy, and his team, will go a long way in ensuring that we achieve what we need to achieve in this country. The only thing that I would like to say has to do with perception. We would not want a situation where every time something happens in a particular parastatal, everybody says that the Minister is corrupt. Kenyans must be able to differentiate between “graft” and “fraud”. When there is fraud, it should not necessarily be associated with the Minister. That is extremely important. We must be able to know the difference between the two. I am the Chairman of the House Committee on Implementation, which will definitely be dealing with Ministries that are not able to fulfil the promises that they make to this House. I do not want Mr. Murungi’s Ministry to be one of them. I am sure that they will not come before me. With those remarks, I beg to fully support the Motion."
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