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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to respond to a Statement requested by the Senator for West Pokot Sen. (Prof.) John Lonyangapuo. In that Statement, he wanted the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to give details as to how many schools in Kenya both primary and secondary, have been connected to electricity to date. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the last three years, from 2013-2016, Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has been focusing on electrification of public primary schools in preparation for the digital learning, lap-top program. A total of 22,423 primary and 9,275 secondary schools have been electrified. I have given a detailed list to the professor for him to analyse. Secondly, he wanted the Committee to state how many schools per county are on solar connectivity and explain why the Ministry of Energy is not performing maintenance and operations on the solar batteries. The response is that there are 4,379 schools on solar throughout the country. An annex has been provided. The maintenance and operation of solar systems in public secondary schools has not been done but the Ministry through the Rural Electrification Authority (REA) has now developed a maintenance programme that would be implemented from this year. The Senator also wanted the Committee to state when all schools in West Pokot will be connected to the national grid. The response is that REA targets to complete all identified primary schools within this financial year and resume electrification of other public facilities including trading centres, secondary schools and health centres in the coming financial year."
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