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    "id": 1398949,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": "circuit breaker that went off in our Nairobi West sub-station, which was restored quickly and power resumed. There was flooding that even blocked the Nairobi Expressway, but as I said before, we are paying attention to ensure that we reduce or eradicate the blackouts, which are caused by avoidable events. On public institutions that are not on power or on three-phase, we have made a commitment that there is absolutely no reason we have 77 per cent access on power. That means power is within reach, yet public institutions, high schools and primary schools, dispensaries and hospitals are not on power. Therefore, what we have done in the budget that we are currently rolling out - and working with Members of Parliament, and a number of you have come with your area MPs to my office as a county group - is to prioritize all the public institutions and ensure they are on power. Where there is need for three-phase within access in terms of the grid, we need to provide that power. Primary schools are centres of habitation. Schools are not in isolated areas. Therefore, when we provide a transformer to serve a school, the communities around the schools are serviced through maximization. If we do the adjacent school, the pockets that are out of 600 metres because of resistance of the lines and the fact that we do not want to have too much power loses due to long cables, can then be batched with transformers and provide 100 per cent connectivity to the country. We are working hard to see whether through the funding coming through Parliament and our development partners, we can accelerate connectivity in Kenya and come close to 100 per cent by the year 2030, the same year we are saying we need to be 100 per cent renewable. If you come to my office today, you will find out that some of those programmes you desire and are pushing the Cabinet Secretary to do, are already on our programmes because it is the job you have given us to do. Sen. Mandago, we are working to ensure that all public institutions and not just that one hospital in West Pokot are on power. How do you preserve medicine like insulin in a hospital if there is no power? Before we go to our villages, there is no reason any public institution today in Kenya is not on power to support the livelihoods of the people around that region. We are committed and are working on that. Thank you."
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