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    "id": 139380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/139380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "I want start by congratulating the Minister for doing a splendid job at the Ministry of Energy. I have seen the strategic plan of the Ministry. I have unqualified support for the programmes they have set out to achieve. The REP is a key component of the strategic plan of the Ministry which informs my contribution this afternoon. I want to start by saying that while supporting the Ministry, I want to ask the Minister and his team to look beyond the obvious and think outside the box. We have a capacity of 1,200 megawatts. It is not the kind of level that you would expect a country like Kenya to have. I was in India the other day, one power plant in some remote place that was put up by a private sector investor was generating 4,500 megawatts for a town. It is important for the Ministry to understand that the cost of power is what is making this country very uncompetitive. We are in a world that is very competitive and the Ministry needs to think beyond the hydros and geothermals and the PPPs that are currently generating electricity. He should not limit himself. He should think as far as nuclear energy is concerned. I think it is something that we, as a country, must contemplate if we have to be competive."
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