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    "id": 652414,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/652414/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I very reluctantly stand to oppose the amendment. I think this is godsend. Two days ago, a pole which is outside my house but not in my compound, was hit by a third party that I do not know of. I have been calling Kenya Power consistently for two days and I am told they are transferring me to an emergency line. It has been removing sparks. If a child goes there, he would be electrocuted. With the rains, it can easily burn my entire house. The provision of electricity is a monopoly of the Government. You cannot tell me when some random person passes by my House and causes damage I am supposed to go knocking everybody’s door telling them to replace the pole. Even if I wanted to, I have no capacity to repair the electric pole. It is extremely dangerous. What we are doing by this further amendment is to revert or take away a right that is available to every Kenyan and in the law of torts. If anybody is negligent in the provision of their service, they are culpable. Whether we like it or not, that is a straight law. Under the law of torts, it becomes a different story if a person does not report what happens even if the causality was negligent. I have been reporting consistently for two days. All I am told is that, that is an emergency. Nobody responds in the long run. I have even been given a reference number. Are you telling me to go to church to pray then call my brothers to fundraise for me if my house burns? I know Hon. Duale is telling me to insure. Insurance cannot give me the comfort of my mother who died four years ago. There are things of sentimental value which no amount of money can return when they burn. That is why we have something called diligence in the law of torts. That is why I vehemently oppose. What this amendment seeks to do is to dilute our rights."
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