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    "id": 209117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.Y. Haji",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Many times, for months, we are not able to communicate with our constituents because the solar system which generates power for telephone use is out of order. One wonders whether, really, it is fair to say that a lot has been done in terms of electricity generation in this country. We know that some parts of the country are advantaged and get electricity on a regular basis. What pleases me is that, whenever His Excellency the President, the leader of this country, gets an occasion to speak, he does not forget to mention the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) of this country, and yet the technocrats in the Ministry do not heed the wishes of His Excellency the President. Even today, if you read in the newspapers, when he hosted His Highness the Aga Khan, he urged him to move from the affluent areas of this country on matters of education and health, and reach out to the people in the ASAL areas of our country. We would like to urge Ministers and our brothers in the Civil Service to do something about electricity in the northern part of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know that hydro-electric power, which is used to generate electricity, has its source in the waters of Tana River. We live along the Tana River but we never get electricity connection. Places like Garissa and Tana River District which are as old as the world has existed, get energy through powered engines. That is total failure! We go to the mosque at 4.30 a.m. or 5.00 a.m. but there is no electricity. Sometimes the power is off at 8.00 p.m. in the evening. We want something to be done in order to allow the people of that part of the country to 3148 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 14, 2007 enjoy like their brothers in the other parts of Kenya. We know that there is a programme in future, for every constituency to get electricity. We know that there are some villages which are already enjoying electricity. We are really left behind and I would like to appeal to the Minister, at this juncture, to do something about power generation in northern Kenya. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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