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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "On the Energy Act, the Bill proposes to give effect to the recommendations of the Presidential Taskforce. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on the review of power purchase agreements, I agree. I also agree to include Kenya Power in the membership but I want us to focus as a House. I remember the County Women Representative for Laikipia did a very fantastic job to see how we can deal with Kenya Power. As we continue looking at many documents, you realise that most of the powers of Kenya Power seem to be going into Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) slowly by slowly and we are just quiet in this House. Getting KETRACO staff is very difficult than getting Kenya Power staff. If we have decided to erode their mandate slowly taking it to KETRACO, we have to be wary on how to deal with that. I have seen of late we have had a very negative campaign against them and we must stop it. It is us who have killed Kenya Power. So, we cannot blame them yet we know the things we did wrongly. That is why we are all hurting in the current leadership. Most of us here did business with Kenya Power back when it was thriving but now, we have brought the institution to its knees blaming the employees. It is not fair to Kenyans working for us. We must agree to take responsibility, accept we have done wrong and build the institution. Let the institution start thinking about how it can reduce the high cost of electricity. I have a mosque in Amboseli. My Muslim brothers and sisters have not been praying for seven to eight months. Why? They were rocked in with a bill of Ksh1 million. The contractor who did that decided to go with all the paperwork. They do not know whether it is their bill or not but they are being told to pay. What I am telling Kenya Power is that, as I support and stand with it to ensure it continues with its work, it has also to start bringing in flexibility and look at many other things that we can work together. Let people come and do agreements and see how to work together in paying their bills while continuing to pray."
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