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    "id": 35416,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/35416/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is truly tragic that, in this day and era, when the country is talking about Vision 2030 - which is only 19 years away - the Assistant Minister is still talking about dreams and visions without any concrete measures. My concern is the coherence within Government policies and operations. We have an incoherent situation where the Government expects the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) – which is a Government agency - to pay VAT to the same Government. It is shocking that, indeed, the Government has given notice to the REA for a hefty bill of arrears for backdated accumulated VAT amounting to about Kshs1.8 billion. Could the Assistant Minister explain how this works? If Government agencies providing critical services like REA are not fully backed to light up the country and spread energy to realize Vision 2030, how does the Assistant Minister explain that policy incoherence? Kindly indulge me to seek the assurance of the Assistant Minister that, last time we had this kind of prolonged drought, cartels and other wheeler-dealers sneaked into the energy sector and were then classified as Independent Power Producers (IPPs). That became one of the major reasons why the cost of energy shot up beyond the reach of many Kenyans. Could he also give assurance to the people that this is not going to be an avenue for another “kill” by the so-called IPPs to fill the gap?"
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