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    "content": "2012. I am hoping that the weather being cyclic, maybe we are still going to - and if we can contain some of the degradation on the forests - generate power to put into the national grid. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason why I think that this Motion is very important is that for any country that needs to develop, electricity is a very major component. We have gone to developed countries and seen what is going on. In every town, there is electricity in every place. If we want to achieve Vision 2030, the way it has been stated that we want to achieve this, we must have enough power supply. To achieve that, we are hoping that we shall industrialize and we cannot do so without electricity. In the country now, the power distribution has not been even. It has not been evenly distributed! You go to market centres, like for example, you move along the main highways and you see pockets of electricity. But if you go behind those buildings along the main highways, there is no electricity. So, that is the reason why I believe that we need to have sufficient supply of power in order to get every part of the country to have power. Therefore, there will be need for investment in this sector and the Ministry of Energy and the Government should provide an enabling environment for those who want to invest in this sector to do so. If, for example, from Independence, we had worked on having these many hydro plants, because we have many rivers particularly in the western part of Kenya, if we had only 20 of them and we started producing at that time, maybe even five megawatts, if you count the number of years now, maybe each one of them will be producing about 20 or 30 megawatts; these times 20, you already have 600 megawatts. So, we would not be having this problem although the issue of the environment is another major issue which I think we should contain. There would be need for concerted effort and all these put together, we are talking about the problem of unemployment in the country. I am sure we would be able to generate employment for our people through all these schemes if they all work."
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