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    "id": 21653,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know other hon. Members want to contribute. We want to implement universal connectivity to all Kenyans. By the year 2030, we want a minimum of 90 per cent of Kenyans to be connected to electricity. The most successful country is Egypt, which has 98 per cent connectivity. In fact, Morocco is catching up. They are at 97 per cent. We hope by 2030, we will have reached over 90 per cent. When I came to the Ministry, in the rural areas only 6 per cent had been connected. With the efforts and the support from this Parliament, we have been able to raise the figure from 6 per cent to 29 per cent within the last five years. I want to thank the Members of Parliament and the members of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information for supporting the Ministry in its Rural Electrification Programme. We are very happy with the support you gave us; our budget for this year has been brought down to Kshs1.9 billion but we are happy that with the intervention of Parliament, we will get more funds, so that we can continue the pace that we have been at in the past. With these few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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