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    "id": 630365,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) W.K. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Winnie Karimi Njuguna",
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    "content": "People can work for 24 hours and that is encouraging. The problem is the high cost of energy. Electricity is very expensive and many people cannot afford it. This Bill addresses that issue, so that everybody can afford electricity. This country has not invested in solar energy which is cheap and can lower the cost of electricity. Although we are headed there, we need to get solar energy, which is cheap to generate. In most cases, it is assumed that solar energy is expensive. I do not agree with this because we have a lot of sunshine in our country. There are counties where solar energy is utilised and the cost of electricity is affordable. I am encouraged because we are going to get solar energy and other types of energy which are going to lower the cost of electricity. I want to comment on the programe that was started by our President dubbed “The Last Mile”. The project was targeting people who would never afford electricity. When the project was introduced, it was very good in the beginning. You find people living in villages with electric cables running over their houses and yet they cannot access electricity. In Kirinyaga, many people in Mwea, where we produce a lot of rice and the area has a lot of potential, live in darkness yet electric cables run over their houses. I hope this Bill will look at this programme, where the owner of a house is supplied with electricity at a cost of Kshs1,100. In Kirinyaga, there are people who were identified to benefit from this Last Mile Project, but the project has turned out to be riddled with corruption. These people who were identified as beneficiaries of the drop cable are given different quotations by the various contractors. They say that the cables are not enough."
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