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    "content": "Maybe we also need to look at this and that is why I encourage hon. Bowen and the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information to seriously think about bringing a Bill to this House, which I am sure Members will support, to not only liberalise distribution through KP but to look at the power sector at large. We need to look at even the generation of power because even the power we are generating basically is still a monopoly of KenGen. Even the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) who are producing energy are doing this as sub-contractors of KenGen and I think that is where the problem emanates from and not just in distribution. We are still a power deficient country and if we are serious with realising our Vision 2030, we cannot do this if we do not have access to cheap power, if we cannot be able to distribute power to the smallest villages in the furthest corners of this country. We can only do that first of all, if we are able to generate power cheaply and you shall not be able to generate power cheaply if that remains a monopoly under KenGen. We cannot distribute it efficiently if that remains a monopoly of KP which, as you heard, believes that even darkness is competition. Well, many of us know darkness is actually a punishment to the hardworking Kenyans of this country especially those in the Jua Kali sector, like many of my constituents in Kikuyu who do not have land. We depend on the Jua Kali sector. Small Jua Kali artisans depend on KP to be able to engage in welding jobs and all that and to make a living and we feel punished and a lot of pain when for two or three days we cannot work because we do not have power. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, simple things like poultry farming that our people are engaging in are going to waste. You have slaughtered your poultry after they have matured in about six and seven weeks and you have invested a lot of money, probably your lifetime savings in that poultry or the fish that you are rearing in your fish pond, then on the last day after harvesting your fish or after slaughtering your chicken you store it in your deep freezer and KP issues a notice overnight that there will no power for the rest of the following day. Without a generator, all your harvest goes to waste and nobody ever pays for this because Kenyans are not aware that you can even sue KP for that. If you were to sue KP and the litigation process becomes very expensive to the ordinary Kenyan, it is incumbent upon us as Members of this House and as leaders of the people that we represent in this House to stand with them and push and actually encourage the Departmental Committee on Energy, Information and Communication to bring a Bill to this House where we can amend the Power Act and make sure that the entire power sector in this country is liberalized. That will only benefit our people and our country. We will be able to realise Vision 2030 where people create jobs and good livelihoods for themselves."
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