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    "id": 589803,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwakulegwa",
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        "legal_name": "Danson Mwazo Mwakulegwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 28th July, 2014, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo had requested for a Statement on the frequent power blackouts in West Pokot County. In this Statement, he wanted to know the following:- 1. The plans the Ministry has put in place to mitigate this problem. 2. When constant power supply will be experienced in West Pokot County. In an effort to make the network supporting supply to this county more robust, flexible and with alternative supplies, the Kenya Power carried out planned outages during the month of August, 2015. The first one was undertaken on 4th August,2015 which lasted eight and a half hours between Kapenguria and Kainuk to replace rotten wooden poles with concrete poles. The Second outage happened on 7th August, 2015 which lasted nine and a half hours between Turkwel and Kainuk to replace 72 wooden rotten poles with concrete ones. The third outage happened on 8th August, 2015 and lasted more than ten hours between Turkwel and Kainuk to create new feeder lines. The fourth outage happened in Kapenguria Town and lasted four hours, and it was to install new transformers to address those overloaded. The fifth outage happened on 11th August, 2015 and lasted eight and a half hours between Turkwel and Kainuk to interconnect with new line to create flexibility. The sixth outage happened on 13th August, 2015 and lasted seven hours between Turkwel and Kainuk to replace wooden poles with concrete ones. The seventh outage happened between Eldoret and Kitale interconnection line on 14th August, 2015 for 11 hours to replace wooden poles on the 33 kV line. The eighth one in Kapenguria Town happened on 17th August, 2015 and lasted for nine hours and 50 minutes to install new transformers and protection switch gears. The ninth outage happened on 22nd August on Kitale-Eldoret line and lasted for 14 hours. This was to service the breakers and the main transformer. The last outage happened on 24th August on the Webuye- Kitale line and lasted for 13 hours to replace rotten poles. This happened to make sure that we improve the supply of power to West Pokot County. After these activities were undertaken, supply has improved. 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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