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    "id": 629621,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/629621/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "It is not enough to have representation of experts in the authority. I have read that the CS in charge of Energy will be a member. That is not enough. Members of the authority must include people from areas where such natural resources are to be extracted in big quantities. It should not be just a matter of incorporating experts. We need to have people from the local areas incorporated to properly represent the communities. People who are alien to those areas can be deceived. We will end up having the extracted resources benefiting only a few people who pursue personal interests as opposed to pursuing the interests of the communities. We are talking about vast lands. It will be easier if the locals are included in the authority. The other issue that is of great importance is rural electrification. As I mentioned earlier, the Jubilee Government has done its part especially in schools, but some areas such as Samburu North Constituency, where I come from, have not benefitted much from rural electrification. Since Independence, we have only had one diesel engine in Baragoi. In fact, the engine has only three points of connection to the power source. The rest of the sub-county, 8,000 square Kilometers, has no electricity at all. We are building schools every day. So, rural electrification must be intensified and all the schools that are coming up connected to electricity. Children are going to school everyday and we are building classes such that as we complete ten schools, 20 others are coming up."
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