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    "id": 371880,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/371880/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sumra",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Irshadali Mohomed Sumra",
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    "content": "Thank you very much. On behalf of the Muslims, I would like to wish all the hon. Members of Parliament a happy Ramadhani. This is a holy month, and you can swear if you are telling the truth. One thing that I would like draw the attention of this House to is that the tariffs of Kenya Power to the industrial sector of the economy are very high. I am involved in steel mills business and we pay a monthly electricity bill of Kshs20 million, Kshs30 million or kshs15 million. The Kenya Power tariffs are very high! So, it is high time we brought in other power suppliers by liberalizing the energy sector. Of course Kenya Power is doing a good job; let us not hit at them, but we request that if they give the power gridlines to the private sector instead everybody creating infrastructure, which may pose problems. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my concern is the industrial sector. If we want to industrialize this country, the tariffs that Kenya Power is charging are very high. I am a scrap metal dealer, and Kenya Power just throws to us vandalism figures. The best thing to do is if they want to say that they have made a loss, they will say that scrap metal dealers have stolen the transformers and other things. When we sit down with them, they do not giving us figures. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a tender last year--- We do buy tenders from Kenya Power; as the secretary general, I know about Kenya Power. Thirty tons of copper scrap was stolen from Likoni Road and it was under tender. This was done by the Kenya Power people. I had exhibits at Kenya Power, which I released to them in 2008 and it has been stolen from them. So, there are vandals in Kenya Power, but when"
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