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    "content": "financing will work. A loan will carry us very far. There has to be very creative financing of this. It is going to be the domain of the corporate private sector; it is really an important area. Now, this Motion gets interesting in relation to what is happening at the KP; it only proposes a little window to a very big area that I hope this House will progressively unveil and begin to deal with until we are in a position where our power supply is, indeed, comparable to what our competitors in the East African region are producing. Of course, you take the option that you can import power from South Africa to here at a cost that is much lower than our own cost of power; you are just stuck with one reason, that is the presence of cartels and cartels restrict competition. That is one reason why costs go up; in areas where you do not have much transparency, they thrive. They have thrived for a long time in our power sector; I am glad that we will begin to throw the spotlight on them. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we in Nambale are completely disadvantaged in terms of power supply; part of the reason for this is the grid system. This system exists in various parts of my constituency but the expansion of the power distribution is a real problem; it is partly because you just cannot send in an application and sit down. You must go there and do many other things that seem to be “currency” in this country to get power supplied to you. I think this is a very important Motion; I urge my colleagues on the Departmental Committee on Energy, Information and Communication to really look at it much more broadly so as be able to apply right from generation through distribution and connection to the consumer. Thank you very much; those few remarks, I support."
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