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"content": "When the Committee is investigating, let us not go to petty things like stealing a cow. Let us look at the problem. What is causing the Kisii community or the Luo community in Awendo to move to Narok County to claim land which they were conned by this gentleman called Oringo? In fact, the problem is this, and I want to tell my sister, Esther, there is a community called the Pusunya. The Pusunya community are cousins of the Kuria and Kisii communities. This Pusunya community are the ones who are trying to say we need this land. They are the ones who donated money and participated in this fundraiser by this fellow called Oringo. Thus, the problem is not the Maasai nor the Kisii. The problem is the brokers who got the money and disappeared with the money. This issue of land is something that we must resolve for boundary disputes. Secondly, it is about time that we change the law, since the issue raised by Sen. Cherarkey on the issue of electricity has got to do with the law. Section 33 of the Energy Act, 2019 bars public entities from charging Kenya Power way leaves for its network. The law further says that the entity can only demand the fees with approval from the Cabinet Secretary for Energy. Now, Sen. Sifuna said, how do you expect the Cabinet Secretary for Energy to say, “Nairobi City County, you can charge Kenya Power, yet, Kenya Power is one of its State Department?” The issue here is that we need to change the law. I propose that we change two laws. One, the law that has to do with land on boundaries. Instead of selling land in the boundaries of counties, let us propose that the communities along those boundaries can lease this land out to people, so that land remains historically to be owned by the community which is domiciled in that area. Two, we need to change Section 33 of the Energy Act. If, to be honest, Nairobi City County is owed billions by Kenya Power, and it wants to be paid for the electricity of streetlights, which to me I believe is a security issue, the national Government has got now to decide. The Ministy of Interior and National Administration is allocated a lot of money together with the Executive. I do not think the Executive will feel the pinch if they decide that they will no longer drink tea or they we will never entertain people, but we will just pay for the street lighting. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that there is a programme, which is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) programne, that is budgeted to spend about Kshs10 billion to deal with this issue of streetlights. Honestly, for every county, and it is not only Nairobi, in my own village of Eor ekule in Narok County, we oftenly find the streetlights are off and it is an insecurity issue. When you ask the community there, they say, they have asked Kenya Power to restore the security lights and they say the bill has not been paid by the county government. So, who is going to pay? In fact, one young boy from Eor ekule asked me: “Senator, who is going to pay for this?” We are afraid of even walking at night. We walk from our technical college, Masaai Technical College, a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institution, all the way to the centre at night after prep, because there is not enough accommodation and there are no streetlights.” My colleagues, I want to beseech you, that instead of just looking at the top layer, let us dig inside to find out what the problems are. Let us change the laws, so that we can The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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