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    "id": 664435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/664435/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwakulegwa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 101,
        "legal_name": "Danson Mwazo Mwakulegwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Karaba wanted to know why there is a shortage of transformers. The Kenya Power (KP), through the Rural Electrification Authority (REA), has actually intensified the placement of transformers. That is why schools, markets and institutions continue to be connected. So, customers within 600 metres of these transformers will get connected. As I said earlier, money given to us by donors will be used in buying more transformers in order to extend these programmes to many people. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale wanted to know why farmers who supply poles to KPC cannot now do so because the policy dictates that they use concrete poles. I would like to inform him that KPC uses only 15 per cent of concrete poles. We still have 85 per cent demand for other poles and this was confirmed by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) when we had a meeting with him. He assured us and the farmers that they will continue to buy the wooden poles now and for the future. So, that market is still available. He even went further and informed farmers that KPC will continue buying those poles from them. With regard to the deadline of June 2017, I was not privy to what was said during the late Hon. Soita Shitanda’s funeral about connectivity of power to people in Kakamega County. In this Statement, I have stated that by 2016 June more transformers will be placed. The countrywide access will only happen in 2020. Sen. Kagwe had wanted to know---"
}