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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "of power and energy in our country. Specifically, transparency throughout the procurement process of power has been wanting. This amendment seeks to address this core issue of transparency and accountability, not only in the governance structure, but also in the entire procurement process. I come from Migori County where I was lucky to be born around Gogo Falls. Gogo Falls is one of those KenGen facilities that produces a lot of power. However, I can tell you that up to today, 95 per cent of my village mates where Gogo Power is based have no electricity in their homes. If you go to the other stretch that is in Uriri and Nyatike constituencies, the penetration of power is less than 23 per cent. Yet Gogo Falls is found within the borders of these two amazing and very productive constituencies. The pathetic nature of the lack of power consumption in my county spams to places like Kuria West and Kuria East. If you go to Masangora today, where people are very industrious and on the border of Kenya and Tanzania, tourism could be cultivated properly based on energy use and the entire security infrastructure of that county. Despite their industriousness, the amazing people of Kuria still wallow in the miasma of having less than 25 per cent of power penetration. I can narrate that this goes all the way to places like Rongo sub-county and Awendo where you find that an amazing industry called Awendo-Soni, or the Southern Nyanza sugarcane industry. Yet the sugarcane growers and cutters in those areas still sometimes depend on using firewood to light their homes at night. The question here is not of capacity, but of governance and transparency that can ensure the abundance that we have in this commodity called electricity can percolate through every single home and all the industries we have. So, what does Sen. Sifuna seek to do with this amazing Bill? I want to urge the entire House to support it. The first thing we find is that today, KP has signed over 45 power purchase agreements. Yet if you look through the internet and all government bodies, the information the public has regarding the details of those agreements is completely scanty. You cannot find them. Why are these information pieces important to the public? They are important because you cannot have power purchase agreements without detailing the cost structure and the resulting power price, as they should be. This is at the core of what this Bill seeks to address."
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