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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Manoti",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kengere Monati",
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    "content": "long time ago. It is not yet completed. We would like the Ministry or the Office of the President to make sure that the district commissioners in the newly created districts and even those ones which do not have district headquarters are properly constructed to give the officers ample and good space to work from. They should not just be put in temporary structures, which shows that we are not ready to have such district headquarters. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Energy, as I had said earlier, has shown a very good indication of doing some work in all our constituencies. But I do not know whether it is the number of contractors which is very few, because a number of projects which were started in my constituency way back in 2004 have not been commissioned. Wananchi see cables running all over, but there is still no electricity. We expect the Ministry of Energy, through June 20, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1951 the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), to commission these projects so that people in those areas can start using electricity, especially in markets. If electricity is supplied in market places, we can create jobs for our youth who have moved to towns to look for jobs. Jobs can just be created in the rural areas if this facility is given to the people in those areas. There is no electricity in our health centres and whenever there is a patient at night, they have to light candles. Imagine how a nurse can treat a patient using candle light at night. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we expect the KPLC to appoint more contractors to finish these projects, which are properly funded, so that wananchi can benefit. As for the electricity meters, Kshs32,000 is required to be paid by a consumer to get a meter or to be connected to the KPLC. There are very few people who can afford to pay that money. What we expect the Ministry to do or to direct the KPLC to do, is to give ample loans to the consumers so that they can get electricity by paying through instalments. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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