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    "id": 470157,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/470157/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Moi",
    "speaker_title": "April 25, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 20 The Senator for Baringo County",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 305,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Kipsiele Towett Moi",
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    "content": " My colleague likes the nuclear sector but that will come at its own time. However, it is the avenue of co-generation that should be looked into. One of the things which I think the Government should do is to compel every sugar factory, before it is licensed, to produce energy as part of its production components just as it is in Brazil. In the case of the existing ones, they should be upgraded so that they have co-generation of power and expand their ethanol. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you know that the sugar industry employs six million people in the western part of our country. We have the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC). It is important that we have competition in this sector. The KPLC is the sole distributor of power. It is important that we encourage competition. After encouraging competition, we know what happens to prices and at the end, the winners are the people of Kenya. Geothermal is the way to go. There are many components of developing geothermal but one of the greatest components is water. The run-off water which is used to produce steam can be reused to supply towns with water or to create electricity. One of my colleagues talked about health care. I think the important thing is for county governments to find ways to attract health workers to serve the deserving majority of our people. It is important that we consider the staffing modes that are currently skewed to such areas as Nairobi leaving other areas of upcountry without. With regard to low cost of housing, we have a huge problem with this. One of the ways that we can improve this is to have a properly executed mortgage facility. We should have tax exemptions for all employees who are servicing mortgages. If we do that, you can imagine how many people will want to own homes and help us in alleviating the housing shortage we have. We have seen the deplorable conditions that our police service men and women; our brothers and sisters, are living in. That cannot continue at all. As I conclude, we are faced with a myriad of problems. In our area, as you know, we are faced with insecurity and this comes about in the form of cattle rustling and by normal criminal activities by thugs. We have adopted, in our county that we will make sure that we enhance education because lack of education is one of the components which leads to cattle rustling. One of the things we have asked the Government to do is to make sure that they give us plenty of the Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs). We are talking about the KPRs not because we do not have faith in our security services but because the terrain of our area is such that only people who live in that area know how to deal with it. We can go for miles and miles bila kuuliza hata maji . It is important that we get our KPRs. We, as leaders, have said that we will do our best to make sure that education is the first and foremost issue in tackling the issue of insecurity."
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