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    "id": 429061,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429061/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1915,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "When it comes to the issue of electricity, I want to comment that REA has done a good job, especially in distributing electricity to primary schools in preparation for the noble laptop project. We want to encourage the county governments, now that we are sharing 50 per cent with them, to really distribute this electricity especially to areas where productive activities will be taking place. We need electricity for water projects and in the processing factories that are put up by farmers. I want to also recommend that the Government relooks at the way distribution of electricity is going on now. There is a lot of confusion. Whereas electricity connection was supposed to cost Kshs.35,000, the truth is that Kenya Power has a lot of hidden costs. We want to recommend that the Government, through proper funding and partnership, reduces the cost to Kshs.35,000, regardless of the distance as long as you are within 600 meters. They are saying that for any cost which is above Kshs.135,000, the applicant will fund the full cost of distribution to the premises, which in most cases is not affordable. Of interest is one case where one of my constituents who had applied for electricity connection was given a quotation of Kshs.50,000 but now it has gone up to Kshs.500,000."
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