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    "id": 629602,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/629602/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "This calls for urgent measures. Our development aspirations will come to nothing if we cannot provide our citizens with adequate, efficient, affordable and reliable energy. Last year, I had a discussion with the Principal Secretary for Energy and Petroleum, my good friend, Eng. Njoroge. There was this aspiration to provide 5,000 megatts of power in 40 months. I argued with him. I told him that if he achieved that, then in my own small way, I would give him a present. It was not achievable because development is in more ways than one. It is like a symphony in the sense that if the national growth rate is 10 per cent per year, it is not possible to have energy growing at 40 or 50 per cent. Even in Nairobi, the symphony of development simply means that it is not possible to go to an estate where people can afford food, good roads, but they do not have water and electricity. As one sector grows, necessarily for it to have an effect, it has to pull with it another sector. I told my good friend that it is not possible to achieve the target considering our growth rate of about 10 per cent."
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