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    "id": 1511524,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to congratulate the Committee led by the Chairman, Hon. Kawaya, for an amazing and well-researched Report. This is one of my areas of expertise. I have interacted with those IPP contracts. I want to confirm to the House that those IPP contracts are the most unfair contracts that this country has ever got into. They do not have a duration, or even our currency as the Kenyan shilling because they know the power of the American Dollar over the Kenyan Shilling. The people who signed those contracts did not mean well for our country. That brings me to the recommendations by the Committee. One of them is to give ourselves timelines to get out of those IPP contracts and get into new contracts that will work for our nation. That will be important because we have to get out of the shackles of contracts that are signed by dubious people who want to eat the “sweat” of our people without any consideration whatsoever for our country. We need to push for openness and transparency in our IPP contracts. I have heard many people speak about the Adani Group deal with the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited. Kenyans are not against Public-Private Partnerships. People want PPPs that everybody understands. I would like to inform the Committee that that is going to be quite expensive because the only way to store electricity is through batteries. The most efficient one called lithium-ion batteries are quite an expensive venture which would triple prices. I ask the Committee to reconsider that proposal and explore the right direction to give this country cheaper power in order to move forward. I also wish to discredit the notion that it is the people that cancelled the Adani Group dealings in this country. We were all in this House when the President said he had cancelled the Adani deals. It is not the public or the people that cancelled the deals. If the Adani Group and the rest want to invest in this country, let there be an advert in the newspapers for competitiveness. Let people participate and come together for us to get the best. Cartels operating the IPPs are people in big Government positions. I propose to the Committee to go ahead and expose them because if we do not do that, we will be seen to be hiding something behind the curtains. The Committee should continue monitoring this issue so that Kenyans get value for their money and the cheaper power that we highly deserve. We are well endowed with solar and wind power. I believe we can get the cost of electricity to below 10 per cent per watt."
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