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    "id": 234300,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/234300/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, these multinationals have initiated very few development projects in this country with that money that they make apart from simply putting their petrol stations and other shops for those petroleum products. They are very few. If anything, let me say none. They have not even helped in putting up roads. I do not think they help the Government in improving the infrastructure in this country. So, the liberalisation that was done November 15, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3659 in this country was supposed to lead to some healthy competition in this country but it did not work. It would have led to that competition which could have been healthy for both the sellers, dealers and buyers of the petroleum products. That is what we did not get. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, apart from lowering the prices of petroleum products, one of the things that would help us in this country is the use of gasohol. We have enough raw materials for production of gasohol in this country. Petrol is imported by the so-called multinationals dealing in petroleum by-products and even the Government itself can import petroleum products. Then we have alcohol produced in Muhoroni by the Agro-Chemical Factory and also by the Molasses Complex Factory in Kisumu. These two factories produce more than enough alcohol that we could use to blend with petrol so that we have gasohol. Gasohol is one of those few cheap fuels used to fuel vehicles in countries like Brazil and Cuba but here, the multinationals block the use of gasohol. Sometimes back gasohol was being used to fuel vehicles in this country but it was stopped for reasons which we do not know up to today. That is one way out that would help us in phasing out the problems of energy in this country. Renewable energy sources are also another way of handling of our problems but unfortunately the Government is not interested. I hope the Energy Bill which the Assistant Minister has talked about will address some of these issues for this country so that the prices of petroleum products would be lowered and we lead easier and affordable lives than is the case today. With those comments, I beg to support."
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