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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Davis Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
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    "content": "However, we will follow it up. We have heard Kapcherop, Kapwareng, and Keurig. We will follow up and pay attention to those areas you mentioned, and if there are others that you want us to follow up on, we will be happy to do that. Concerning Mheshimiwa Sen. Kinyua, we have a dashboard, but you can imagine it was in the Cabinet Secretary's office; the dashboard for Kenya Power, the dashboard for KenGen, and others. We have serious dashboards and I would like to encourage hon. Wamatangi to invite some of the hon. Members to come to our National Control Center. We have a dashboard and see the whole country in one room. So, we follow up on what is happening all the time, and when we see a bit of an overload, we can pull down to ensure that the network does not go down because of an overload; managing that reactive situation where there is an overload. Then why do we have transformers that are connected to one person? The point is, yes, we have a transformer for 25kVA or 50kVA, and when customers apply for power, we do provide depending on the funding scheme a transformer, not necessarily which would serve one person, but a transformer that can serve that local community and do maximisation. We currently are doing a very heavy maximisation programme with some funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union (EU), and the Africa Development Bank (AFD) and we have another AFD 3. The first one is Kshs22 billion. We have another Kshs15billion of AFD 3, which is currently being rolled out and a lot of them are on maximization. So, where you see one, two or 10 persons being connected, then that transformer can service 70, 80 or 100 persons. We have done surveys and some of the plants have been finished. We are working very closely with the Members of Parliament (MP) to maximize a lot of this money that I have just spoken to, which is going to maximization. Therefore, there will be more utilization of that asset that currently is not working because it is having a few people, when it should be serving a larger number or maximized to that extent. The last mile is becoming easier in the highly populated areas because we are just doing maximization. Of course, the last mile is more difficult, especially where we have reached today, such as the areas where the landmass is huge, like Wajir, Isiolo and Marsabit Counties. However, we are committed on the last mile and maximization. In fact, Sen. Kinyua should come to my office for a cup of tea and we can look at how Laikipia County is coming up. I thank you so much."
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