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    "content": "rivers are drying up. This is a problem that we have caused as a country. We can say that there is climate change and so on, but I believe that the problem that we are facing in this country like rivers drying up, the Mau Forest issue and the closing of Masinga Dam are man-made problems. I think with good governance, we should be able to contain that. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are talking about preparedness. In this country, we are fond of fire-fighting. A very good example is in 2000 when we had shortage of power in the whole country. What happened is that it ended up costing Kenyans so much because the Government had to go for short-term solutions like going for Independent Power Producers (IPPs). The IPPs were selling electricity to the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) so exorbitantly compared to what KenGen would have been selling. That is because we wait. I do not know whether it is usually deliberate. I would like to commend the Ministry of Energy and KenGen because I have seen that they have a programme whereby they would like to produce about 500 megawatts by 2012. What they are using in terms of costs is going to be a very heavy investment. If we had taken care of our environment very well by using some of the rivers that I have talked about--- Studies have already been carried on the Nzoia and Yala rivers, and it was proved that we could generate power on them, but due to Government bureaucracy and lack of decision-making, it was never followed up."
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