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    "content": "we know is at the centre of industrialization. We can never be an industrialized country if we do not double or triple the penetration rate of electrification by Kenya Power. It is important that we tell ourselves the truth which is that electrification penetration in the rural Kenya is only about two per cent. This will not make any significant contribution to poverty reduction. What this means is that we are allowing 98 per cent of our rural population to have nothing to do with electricity and yet we have opportunities through REA. I would like to support hon. Members who congratulated REA. The work REA is doing is very good. However, with regard to Kenya Power, it is a question of inefficiency. We have to address this issue. This company has all the opportunities, but they will stay longer than a year without effecting a connection. We have tangible cases where they have done this. Our institutions of education, market centres and many other premises cannot access power and so we cannot talk about industrialization in the rural countryside. There is the issue of compensation. This is where we have the most serious situation. There is compensation in terms of destroyed gadgets. There is also the issue of people losing lives. Every year Kenyans get electrocuted because of carelessness on the part of Kenya Power workers. As I say this, I want to mourn Justus Akhonya, the son of Patrick Lumusi who was electrocuted. I would like to mourn Ms. Rachel Nyenze, the wife of Manoah Riaga who was electrocuted when she was only hanging clothes of her child. That child is orphaned now. She died and Kenya Power (KP) does not care. I would like to mourn the life of Desmond Wesonga who was also electrocuted only last year. All of them were electrocuted within one year. That only happened in Shinyalu Constituency. What about other places? I think it is important that KP takes stock of the lives that have been lost. That is because it has been happening every day and KP does not care. There should be full compensation for the loss of those lives. There are others who get maimed because of careless connectivity. We cannot take that matter lightly."
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