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    "id": 1398965,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": ", Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, we will follow up on that. I am here with Dr. Siror, and possibly we will even give you an individual call to make sure that, that has been done. Sen. Cherarkey, really, this transformer challenge is a big challenge for us and we need a lot of support. During the days when there were no metres, schemes had not been built by REREC. There was no metre because of the challenge of the legal issues of meter procurements, which the country faces sometimes. Sometimes clients were connected irregularly to consume power without a meter. I am sure you are aware that sometimes you have tried to connect metres and our officers have not been allowed to go in to connect metres because if you can consume it free, why do you want to allow somebody to come and put in a metre? So, sometimes it forces us to disconnect the transformer, to encourage them to allow us to go in and address it because, otherwise, we close down Kenya Power if they have to pay the generators, and yet they have not collected the revenue. Therefore, that is one challenge we have had and it is more prevalent in some counties, but I do not want to name which ones. We even have situations where illegal networks have been built, and they pose risks. Sometimes, poles that you find have fallen out in a particular area, it is not a network of Kenya Power, and that is why you see us coming and cutting down a pole. You would ask yourself, is Kenya Power out of their mind to be pulling down a pole? Some of those poles are not ours and it presents a security challenge to the people, when people have gone out of their way to put in a small network connected to a transformer that is being overloaded. It is an irregular network; it is an illegitimate legal network and, therefore, overloaded transformers cause a problem for legitimate customers who are properly connected. Therefore, we appeal for the political leadership to work with us in supporting Kenya Power to also get revenue, so that we can extend the network to some of the areas like the rice field that Sen. (Dr.) Oburu has talked to."
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