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    "id": 371810,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. First, I want to congratulate hon. Bowen for bringing such an important Motion. It is long overdue. When you study business monopoly, it is very dangerous in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. The KP has been taking consumers for granted. We cannot achieve our Vision 2030 without electricity. Electricity is very important as far as industrialization is concerned. We know the Jubilee Government is planning to roll out the laptop project, but this will only succeed when we have electricity. The Jubilee Government has talked about the one million acres of land to be irrigated. This can only happen if electricity is available. Unfortunately, this parastatal is sleeping on the job because the aspects of inefficiencies and ineffectiveness are alarming. In my constituency, people have applied for electricity and six months down the line, they have not been connected. I am told cases of corruption are very rampant at the KP. Unless you bribe them, they will not connect you with electricity. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a case in my county particularly in Kiminini Constituency whereby a corporate and individuals came together. They paid money to the Kenya Power and they were conned. We have conmen outside there colluding with the staff of KP and they have been conning poor Kenyans of their money in the name of coming to connect electricity. So, this is the high time that we must have another body to provide competition. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the telecommunication industry, sometimes back before the mobile phones came in, we had Kenya Telkom where we had the fixed land lines. There was a lot of laziness. They could not connect people with telephones. Thank God when the mobile phones came in they woke up. So, if we are going to have another body that is going to compete with KP, then consumers are going to be assured of effectiveness and efficiency. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at the banking industry. Before the banking industry was liberalised, the big players were taking consumers for granted. Thank God when Equity Bank and Family Bank came in other giant banks had to wake up. You see people moving all over asking for people to get loans. These were the people from the major banks who were taking consumers for granted and I am very sure if we bring another body that is going to compete with KP, it is going to wake up. Kenyans are going to have electricity. With competition you cannot be taken for granted. We know very well that when it comes to connection of electricity people have been paying"
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