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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, to enhance supply of environmentally friendly and affordable energy to our economy, the focus of our investments will be on development of renewable energy such as geothermal, wind, bio-fuel, bio-mass and use of solid waste. The Government will also continue to scale up investments in transmission while at the same time upgrading existing ones in order to stem systemic transmission loses that partially contribute to the high cost of energy in our country. The Government will also continue to expand the Rural Electrification Programme covering all major trading centres countrywide. To this end, we have allocated Kshs7 billion. In addition, the Government will encourage private sector participation in electric power generation from wind, bio-mass, and recycled wastes, within the public-private partnership framework. Mr. Speaker, Sir, after three years of heavy investment in ICT infrastructure, our economy is about to be hooked on to the Global Digital Grid and, indeed, His Excellency the President is expected in Mombasa tomorrow for the launch of the under sea fibre optic cable. We must leverage on this affordable broadband connectivity to accelerate economic growth and expand economic opportunities so as to reduce poverty amongst our people. Appropriate utilisation of this infrastructure would yield some savings as well as create efficiencies for better and more productive economies, creating jobs and moving our economy up the valley chain and reducing the cost of doing business. To further expand access to benefits presented and to ensure no Kenyan is left behind by the ICT revolution, I propose the following investments as part of the stimulus package. First, I have allocated Kshs1.3 billion for the purchase of mobile computer laboratories for each constituency for use by our high schools."
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