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    "content": "We are talking about US$247 million which is being provided to strengthen our transmission backbone. As we know, we are constructing a 400 KV double circuit line from Mombasa to Nairobi to evacuate power that we will generate in Mombasa to reduce the blackouts within Nairobi and the Central Kenya area and we cannot access this money without increasing this guarantee. I would like to put the concerns of hon. Members to rest because what we are approving today is a ceiling. It is expanding flexibility. When we come to individual guarantees, like when I will require the guarantee for the Lake Turkana Wind Power Plant, a Sessional Paper will be prepared and we shall come to this House for specific approval for that project. On each of the borrowing, including the 280 Megawatt power plant for Olkaria, we shall also come to this House to seek approval for that specific guarantee under the Act. So, I do not think Parliament or the Government is running any risk by raising this ceiling. It is merely to help us access long-term concessional funding from international finance organizations."
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