{"id":396086,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/396086/?format=json","text_counter":48,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":24,"legal_name":"Nicholas Gumbo","slug":"nicholas-gumbo"},"content":"The sorry state of our country has always been seeing so much misery in the so much abundance. You can look at, for example, the energy sector. I belong to the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information. Just two days ago, we were looking at the proposals to achieve 5 Gigawatts in the next 40 months and then we said that, that is really a tall order because in the last 52 years, we have only managed to produce 1.6 Gigawatts. It is very ironical that Kenya, being a tropical country occupying over 580,000 square kilometres and receiving abundance sunshine for up to six hours in a day throughout the year, is unable to tap even that available energy to be able to make processing at the village level possible."}