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    "id": 1511466,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity. I appreciate the work of the Committee. This Committee has done a fantastic job, including during their benchmarking trips. Whatever money was spent on the benchmarking trips was well spent. Power is one of the greatest inputs in development. It is key because it moves the country. Unstable power, leave alone lack of power, is itself very expensive on machinery and establishments such as health facilities. We face the challenges daily. A lot of businesses go under because of power unreliability. Failure to maintain the cost of power and losses of power drive them out. The cost of power in this country is totally unacceptable. I appreciate this Committee because they have shown us that in Africa we are probably the most expensive in terms of power. They have shown us our overreliance on IPPs and the unfavourable arrangement that we have with them which leads to high costs. These PPAs are totally unfavourable to us. I cannot understand why we should pay in dollars. Owners of these companies are not known; they are shady and we do not know whether there is conflict of interest. I do not want to take much time because many colleagues are interested in the matter. The work the Committee has done is commendable and I support all their recommendations. Those recommendations that require Ministries and other Government agencies to take action should be implemented with immediate effect. The recommendation on the issue of paying in dollars should be implemented like yesterday. I have enquired why there is so much power instability and lack of power in the western part of the country like Kisumu and beyond. It is because of the Muhoroni gas generation. If you have travelled on that road, the generation at Kipsitet is what causes the problem. We were supposed to have power produced in Timboroa and transmitted to Kisumu. I do not know what happened, but we still depend on that yet it is four times more expensive in terms of production. Why should we go on with that system? I support this Report fully. This is the first time that I am supporting something hook, line, and sinker. What the Committee has done is commendable. Let us adopt and support all the recommendations they have made in this Motion. We could not have done better than them. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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