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    "content": "( LAPPSET) Corridor Project, Isiolo Resort City Project and Isiolo-Juba Road. We have also been talking about Kenya being a middle income country by 2030. We have been talking about industrialisation and all these things but all these ambitions will have to be powered. So, without adequate energy I do not think we are going anywhere. I know hon. Wamalwa has really talked passionately about this but the first thing we should ask ourselves is: Which is this elephant in the house? I think it is about time that we address the main issue in the energy sector. I know there are some contracts in KP with some of the Independent Power Providers (IPPs) that are still ongoing. There are some emergency power producers which add to the pool together with KenGen. I think we need to know the costing of some of this power that is supplied to KPC by some of these IPPs. If you look at the annual results of KP, you will realise that for example in six months you find revenues of Kshs15 billion and the bottom line barely gets to Kshs400 million. The cost of electricity to KP from IPPs is three times the cost of power from KenGen and that explains why our people are paying more for electricity and I think it is about time we asked questions. We need to know who these IPPs are and emergency power producers so that we can see what kind of contracts that were entered which we have to keep paying expensive power. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would urge our Chair of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information through hon. Speaker to give us a comprehensive report on how much each and every IPP and emergency producers sell power to KPC and this is going to clearly portray where our problem is. I know hon. Wamalwa has talked about Safaricom. Before Safaricom came in we had Telkom. I remember we used to pay Kshs200,000 to get a mobile phone. Nowadays, they are hawked on the streets and I think removing this monopolistic tendency that we keep maintaining for inefficiency is not the way forward. So, I would urge through hon. Speaker that our Chair of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information to table for us in this House a list of all the tariffs that we pay to IPPS comparatively to KenGen. I think if you look at three times what we pay together with maybe what we get from KenGen, we still pay one of the most expensive power in the region. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have invested a lot of money in the generation of power in this country, but unless we sort out the distribution of power, we are not going anywhere. We are doing disservice to this country, and I think it is time we broke all the corrupt cartels in the energy sector."
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