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    "id": 1472236,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "That is what the former President initiated through the task force that was appointed to review power purchasing agreements and they submitted their report on 28th September, 2021. In that report, they had recommended the cost of electricity be reduced by 33 per cent. If that was implemented, the cost of buying tokens by customers across the country, be it prepaid or postpaid, domestic or industrial customers, including the street lighting and the heavy users of electricity in this country, with that leverage that KP is trying to provide, the cost should have come down by 33 per cent after that report. It was resolved that within four months of the submission of that report, there should have been renegotiations of PPAs in renegotiating of IPPs because it was very expensive and opaque. I request the Energy Committee, where Sen. Sifuna sits, to tell us that the recommendation of that report. Unfortunately, I cannot see the chairperson of the Energy Committee. As I support the amendment by Sen. Sifuna, I request the Energy Committee to tell us the outcome of renegotiating by KP and the outcome of the issue of PPAs through the IPPs. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, are you aware that there are many PPAs that remain unsigned? They should have been cancelled. I encourage the Energy Committee to look at this issue because this is how money is being stolen. It is violating Article 201 of the Constitution on openness, transparency and accountability in financial matters in the Republic. If up to date, there are PPAs through IPPs suppliers who sell to KP, which then transmits to domestic and industrial use, then we have a problem as a country. As we support this amendment of the Energy Act by Sen. Sifuna, the Energy Committee should tell us whether these PPA agreements that were unsigned have been cancelled. That is corruption. If a quack looks like a duck, then it is a duck or an ugly swan as somebody would say it. In that report, there was supposed to be reforms within KP. We have not yet been told what happened with the investigations into the faulty transformers that were being left here in Nairobi, in Industrial Area. No one has told us to date what happened to faulty transformers and who were held accountable. There are many primary schools in Bomet, Nairobi City, Nandi, Migori and Kilifi counties that have perpetual faulty transformers. No one has told us the audit on those faulty transformers and what became of it. Sen. Madzayo, do you remember we raised a cry over faulty transformers in the last session? However, up to now, no one has been arrested or charged in court or the fate of those faulty transformers in relying in industrial area in Nairobi City County. I shudder when I think faulty transformers might be supplying to you or Kenyans. We need to know the outcome. The problems of PPA and IPP agreement is the lethargy and the opaque nature that KP has. There was a proposal in the task force report of 2021 that we must restructure and clean up KP management because they are perpetuating systemic corruption. On token purchase, there are people who are on postpaid and others prepaid. There are people who do not have electricity. What can you say on that? Is it not corruption when The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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