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    "content": "Our eighth pillar is extending basic services such as water and electricity to every Kenyan. We will increase, year on year, the number of people who have access to clean water and sustainable supply of electricity until we achieve the goal of providing access to water and electricity to all Kenyans. Improving the supply and quality of water is central to a range of our policy goals, it will help to open up more land for farming; it will improve the health of our citizen, it will help provide security, especially in Northern Kenya by ending a perennial source of conflict and will protect and indeed enhance our biodiversity. Hon. Members and Senators, Kenya has been a victim of perennial droughts and floods. Every other year, we have either drought or flood. This cycle has adverse effect not only on our food production, but on our infrastructure and our economy as whole. We have commissioned already the relevant Ministries to work out a framework for building dams and pans for water retention on a mass scale. Various agencies of Government will employ our youth to start this construction immediately. We have the equipment, the knowledge, personnel and the will to carry out this endeavour. Hon. Members, Argentina is a middle income nation with the same population as Kenya. It has 24 megawatts of electricity capacity while Kenya has just 1.5 megawatts. Energy drives the economy and we will, therefore, promote investment in the new forms of energy generation such as solar, wind and geothermal plants as well as oil, gas and coal. The energy market must be liberalized and opened up to new sources of investment so that we can expand generating capacity, extend our transmission network, improve the consistency and quality of supply and lower the overall cost of energy for the Kenyan citizen."
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