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    "content": "It was because we lost that vision and we did not have the will power to continue the direction that we intended to go that made us lose it all. Look at the situation in which we are. Even if somebody gave me a lot of money to invest in Kenya now, I will be very doubtful whether I will invest it here. The reason is that if you invest in Kisumu County, for example, and that is the first place I would invest if I wanted to because I know the environs, there will be very unreliable, inadequate, on and off, inaccessible power. In fact, it will be very uncompetitive in terms of pricing. When Sen. Obure was reading that electricity bill, I thought he was reading mine. I have had an opportunity to pay a bill of Kshs23,000 in a household. At that time, I wrote to whoever is in charge of the consumer department, that I do not run an industry in this home, how come I pay this kind of money? The reply was that: “We sent engineers to your home and we checked your meter. The margin of error is minus one plus one, which is within, so, please continue paying your bill.” If you want to use electric power, you must be ready to pay. The kind of money we are asking Kenyans to pay is not competitive. It does not even help those Kenyans to save. This means that we are telling them that because of power, they will never save or invest. Consequently, there will be a vicious cycle of poverty. We must do something about the issue of power that can bring the cost down. We should also make power reliable, efficient and accessible both to industrial and small scale consumers."
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