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    "id": 1525459,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ali Roba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support. I wish to weigh in on th Statement that has been shared by the Senate Majority Leader and Sen. Cherarkey. I was honoured to have the company of Sen. Cherarkey in Mandera. The problem that is being discussed has been ongoing for the last three years. The Government has been making promise after another. When the President visited Mandera County, two generators were brought to back up power production. Unfortunately, three on the ground are not working. Of the two that were brought, one is not working. While the President’s intent was noble and he had made commitment for this solution to be realized by the people of Mandera, the situation has appeared to be extremely deliberate by Kenya Power Company Limited as if the people of Northern Kenya are not equals in this Country. We had discussed the challenge of power in Mandera when I was the governor there. Unfortunately, it is not a devolved function and cannot be billed to county governments because provision of electricity is not liberalized but is a monopolistic business run by Kenya Power and Lighting Company. The situation is going from bad to worse. What is very embarrassing in present- day Kenya and extremely disheartening is that Bulahawa, across the border with an unstable government has power. At the farthest corner from the center of Mogadishu, Bulahawa, has several private vendors, and they have reliable electricity. When Mandera is in the dark, fridges are not working and people are fasting they cross to the border to go and buy ice and cold drinks from Bulahawa. It is extremely painful that when you look at Bulahawa belonging to a country that was unstable for 30 years. The resemblance of government is only starting to exist right now, yet, that town across the border, less than 100 meters from our border, is able to have reliable power supply. Kenya a middle-income status country, is struggling to provide electricity to its people. We have talked about this repeatedly. The leaders are in pain to the level that the leaders of Mandera County are at loggerheads with each other; one blaming the other for not doing this and that, with the belief that somebody is sabotaging somewhere, yet the responsibility of provision of electricity lies squarely with Kenya power. One of the 47 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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