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    "id": 209085,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/209085/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to say a few words in support of this Vote. The kind of work that the Ministry of Energy is doing around the country, especially in the field of rural electrification, is highly commendable. If you travel around, there is not a single constituency - I believe - where there is no Rural Electrification Programme (REP) of some type going on. This is because the Government is focused on a realisation that we have to supply electricity to rural areas, markets, emerging towns and schools, so that they can benefit from the benefits of modernity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the amount of money that we have allocated to this Ministry - Kshs6 billion - is, in my view, inadequate. In fact, this Ministry should have been given double this amount, availability of funds allowing. I say so because I believe that the Ministry, in its REP, should ensure that each and every secondary school in this country is connected with electricity to enable them to benefit from Information and Communications Technology (ICT) development; that is, computer training and so on. Today, some libraries in the world are on diskettes. If schools have electricity, and with computerisation, they can access materials. As we take electricity to rural areas, one looks at the increased consumption. I do not know if our development of electricity supply is meeting the required demand. Our neighbours, Uganda, have a terrible shortage of electricity. I want to urge the Ministry to hasten the inter-connection between East Africa and the South African Power Pool, so that we can take care of any eventuality in terms of shortages. As the economy continues to grow---"
}