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"content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to reply on behalf of our very able Chairman, Sen. Gideon Moi, who is the Chairman of the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation. Madam Temporary Speaker, first, I want to thank the Members for the interest that they have shown in this subject. Particularly, I thank them for appreciating the urgent need to enhance our electric power generating capacity. I am extremely touched by the vigour and enthusiasm that Members have shown in this subject. I am sure that the excellent views which have been put forward will enrich the Report considerably. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to take this opportunity, in particular, to thank Members of the Committee for compiling this Report. I also want to thank the Government of the Republic of South Korea for making it possible for the Kenyan delegation to visit their country and conducting Members of our delegation around their installations and facilities. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have seen the impact in the energy sector of South Korea, and significantly so the impact and contribution which nuclear plants have made to the economy of South Korea. We have also seen that South Korea is prepared to work with us and, therefore, I want to urge that we make use of the experience that the Koreans have so that we are not compelled to reinvent the wheel ourselves; we should take advantage of that experience. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have been warned, in fact, by the very able Senator for Meru, Sen. Kiraitu – who has himself become an authority in this sector – he has asked us to beware that there are those who are going to come round to discourage us; there are those who would not want to see us pursue this cause of the nuclear programme in particular and they will tell us how dangerous nuclear power is, what amount of devastation it is going to cause to our environment and so on, and so forth. But Sen. Kiraitu has also told us rightly that even as they come here, their own countries and governments are busy expanding their nuclear capacity and technologies, yet they come here to discourage us from pursuing it! Madam Temporary Speaker, we have also been told that it is not going to be easy, going forward, particularly in terms of initiating this programme because it will require leadership and commitment. So, we are saying, as the leadership, that as a people, we should understand the benefits that we are likely to derive from expanding our electric power generating capacity and the contributions that we are likely to get from the nuclear programme in particular. Therefore, I want to urge hon. Senators, Kenyans at large and all the institutions that will be connected with this programme to support this initiative. Madam Temporary Speaker, the hon. Senator for West Pokot has pointed out that a lot of the recommendations which have been made in the past feasibility studies and all that end up in the shelves of Government offices and in the archives. I am hoping that this report will not be one of those which will end up in those shelves in Government offices or in the archives. But, rather, I would request that it be seriously implemented so that Kenyans at large can benefit from this programme. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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