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    "speaker_name": "Malava, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support these amendments. However, there is one that has taken my interest. I do not support it. This is the one of winding up the NUPEA to be part of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum. I am just questioning why this has happened. I am in possession of a letter done by the Principal Secretary of the Ministry. He was advising Parliament on 29th November 2023 that the position of the Ministry was that NUPEA should not be wound up. Instead, it should be funded more to operate within international standards. The letter continues to advise Parliament that this is important because it is in line with the Executive Order No.2 of 2023 on organising Government. I find this amendment in bad taste with what the Government is doing for the country at large. If you look at the activities and programmes NUPEA is doing in this country, they are enormous in alleviating some energy problems in this country. NUPEA is here to prepare this country to generate electricity through nuclear technology. It has many programmes that have been doing very well and are in line with what is happening in America, Japan and France. NUPEA was to fill the gap of blackouts that we always experience in our country. It was to ensure we utilise this to eliminate blackouts. Its activities of running the programmes will not be done if we move NUPEA to the Ministry. This is because the Ministry is particularly concerned with policy direction. However, NUPEA is concerned with programmes and activities that have to do with implementation. Therefore, we are seriously going to lose as a country if we take the functions to the ministry. I am just wondering whether this was done hurriedly because of the activity that happened in Kilifi where this agency acquired some piece of land. The residents felt that there was no public participation. They have rushed to wind up its activities against Government policy and directive on what NUPEA is in the country. NUPEA is known for a lot of research in development of energy in these countries and developing new technologies and strategies to address power in this country. Most Members who have spoken here have talked about power issues in the country. As much as the country is struggling to install electricity, you have been told how transformers have broken down and there is no power in our rural areas. Transformers are not working where we have power. There are no meters where we have transformers and electricity connected to our homes. NUPEA came in to do so much to ensure they have arrested this. You recall that this agency is a national liaison office for International Atomic Agency. Therefore, NUPEA is only fulfilling an international obligation. We will lose the goodwill of the international community the moment you remove it and put it under the Ministry and a department. We may not be supported as we expected because of this particular agency. I support the other amendments. However, for this, I urge the Leader of the Majority Party to refresh on the letter in my possession addressed to the Clerk of the National Assembly advising that it is the interest of the Ministry and the national Government that this agency remains as it is. I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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