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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to add my voice to this Vote on Energy. I also want to thank those who came to wish me a quick recovery when I had an accident. I also want to thank the entire staff of the Aga Khan Hospital, for having made me who I am today. I was almost going, but by the grace of God, I am around. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that I will speak briefly on what is going on in rural electrification. First of all, I want to commend - this is my second time to do so - the entire staff in the Ministry under the leadership of my friend, the Permanent Secretary, and the Minister for having done a wonderful job on the rural electrification project. However, not much is happening. A number of projects have, so far, stalled. I want to request my friends to actually go and purchase the items that are missing in order for us to realise the goal of rural electrification. 3144 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 14, 2007 The amount of money required, as a deposit, from schools for a connection to be effected is more than Kshs100,000. I would like to request the Ministry to consider institutions like schools and health centres because they had allocated certain funds to do connections in those institutions. We had agreed earlier that people living within a radius of 600 metres should be connected. But that is not happening under the Rural Electrification Programme (REP). I would like to request my friend, the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Nyoike, to consider connecting people living within a radius of 600 metres in order to achieve the goal of rural electrification. We also agreed that those who do not have the money for individual connections--- Those who cannot afford the Kshs16,000 or the Kshs32,000 for whatever phase--- There are those who are going for single-phase and three-phase! They should be allowed to pay in instalments because the poverty level, especially in my constituency, is very high. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other concern regards the issue of hiring expatriates. We addressed that issue in this House for the last two months. We have three expatriates managing Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) through a grant. Each expatriate is getting Kshs3.4 million per month, plus a house allowance of Kshs180,000. When we asked the Minister for Energy about that, he agreed that there were some grants which we got, and that those fellows were on a contract. Those people are being paid that amount because they are white, and not because they have some special skills! I asked one pertinent question here last time. We have a Managing Director, who is an African. The Managing Director of KPLC is a very qualified person. He is only earning Kshs530,000!"
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