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    "id": 1560561,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1560561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laisamis, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Lekuton",
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    "content": " I find it hard to believe that six years after the feasibility studies and even the road survey have been done, KenGen is still not sure where the road will go through. I feel and smell a sinister motive in this specific question. It is not well answered; I need more clarification because any society that produces energy must be rewarded, and one of those rewards is infrastructure. A society will not develop without infrastructural activities on its soil. Secondly, in my request for a statement, I also asked where the headquarters of this KenGen project will be located. We know for sure that almost 90 per cent of the project is in Laisamis Constituency. Again, the answer to that question is vague. Feasibility studies have been done for almost four years, yet the information given to the public participants, including the local men and women who cannot read and write, professionals and anyone who lives in that area, is piecemeal. They are not given answers in full. They are introducing any chapter they want, bringing it on, and leaving out the ones they do not like. Therefore, feasibility studies must be well documented and presented. The fourth issue is that KenGen should conduct public participation in its entity, as far as the communities living there are concerned. We have the Elmolo, Turkana, Rendille, Samburu and many tribes that live there, but KenGen has chosen to call each individual group to Isiolo and talk to them. This is a collective effort. This is community land. All those people should be brought together with the professionals of Laisamis Constituency because different information is given to each group separately. Therefore, the community cannot comprehend the entire issue of how KenGen will operate on their land. On the issue of commitment to land registration, there is no signed document by KenGen indicating that no project will start until the community land is fully registered. That is another mistake they have made, and we need the issue clarified. They have also not answered the number of turbines located within Laisamis Constituency. Now that we know 200 megawatts will be installed and each turbine will carry several megawatts, we need to know the number of megawatts that will be located within Laisamis for us to discern how much of our land is being used by KenGen to produce power. This is a very serious issue that affects the people of northern Kenya, whose only chance is the wind resource. The people are not well- engaged by KenGen. None of what the people say is being taken into consideration. I beg you to allow the Departmental Committee on Energy to visit Mt. Kulal in Loiyangalani to look at the site where KenGen will put up the power plant. That way, this Parliament will understand what we are talking about. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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