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    "id": 206418,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/206418/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "were a little more open to business than we are to our own citizens 40 years after Independence? Go to the place Mr. Omamba comes from, it is called Bogo. There is a falls there that is natural. It has been running for years. It was used to generate power to do mining when there was gold those days. It also produced enough power to pump water to supply that small town and the village around it. When they wanted to re-generate it so that it works again, they were told they must sell the power produced to the national grid. What is this myth about the national grid? Why must lines and lines of cable run up to Mbita and Mfangano Island? Why can you not allow somebody to generate power in Mfangano Island and sell it to Mfangano people if they want to buy it? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we just need some imaginative Government so that we change some little policy so that we can produce power and sell it wherever. We can generate electricity whether from bagasse, hydro and whatever else and sell it to whoever wants to buy it. Why can we not open up and compete with KenGen and the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC)? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion because I know the potential of growth that this can bring. This can be done by merely changing the policy that Prof. Olweny has brought here today and accepting that Mumias Sugar Factory and other sugar factories can produce electricity and power alcohol and sell it to whoever wants to buy. By doing so, we can be a superpower. However, we are not imaginative! We just sit here and hope that we are in the Government. I beg to support."
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