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    "id": 301556,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/301556/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Rege",
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        "legal_name": "James Kwanya Rege",
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    "content": "who have been denied their basic services like telephone, electricity, internet, fuel, et cetera . Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will remember late last year when power was cut at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport due to vandalism of the electrical cables and also the major blackout that engulfed Mombasa City as a whole. Mombasa Town was cut off electricity for so long. In fact, we have just been informed by the Energy Regulatory Commission that the shortage of fuel recently was as a result of vandalism of power cables. It is with this in mind that the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communications and Information held consultations with affected organizations to seek an end to the vice of vandalism. Among these, we were able to identify as the main cause of the increase in incidents of vandalism were flaws in the law which did not effectively deter people from crimes relating to vandalism and sabotage. Today, those convicted get away easily with fines of less than Kshs100, 000 which in our view is not commensurate to either the cables they stole or the losses they had occasioned to the respective organisations and the clients or customers. Having taken this in mind, the Committee came up with a Bill that seeks to address these flaws by introducing amendments to the Energy Act, 2006; the Kenya Information and Communications Act, 1998 and introducing certain provisions of the Scrap Metal Act that were repealed in 2008."
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