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"speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to my knowledge, the police do not burn charcoal. Therefore, I do not see how the police can really end up being charcoal vendors. The police can arrest people who are destroying forests. That is what the Member should be talking about. We are trying to enhance the capacity of law enforcement agencies in order to deal with this issue of illegal logging in the country. Hon. Eseli asked two questions. One is about the hydro dams. He said that the dams have recharged, yet electricity bills have not gone down. It does not just operate that way, that now that the hydro dams have recharged, therefore, bills go down. We have been using the oil powered generators for quite some time and there is always a transition to lower prices. I look forward to a period over the next few weeks or so when we hope that the Kenya Power Company will revise the prices downwards. The Member also said that in this period, the Government should provide more funds to the Constituency Roads Committees (CRCs) in order to repair the roads. This is a very expensive exercise because when the El Nino comes and there are floods, they destroy the infrastructure. They wash away the roads and sometimes they go away with bridges and we have to start again. Some of these are not in the Budget. There is no budgetary provision for bridges that were going to be washed by floods. So, it is unfortunate but the Ministry of Roads has got some contingency funds in its Budget that we can use to carry out emergency repairs of roads and bridges that are washed by the floods."
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