{"id":67406,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/67406/?format=json","text_counter":16,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Eng. Rege","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":135,"legal_name":"James Kwanya Rege","slug":"james-rege"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Indeed the crime of vandalism of telecommunications plants and electricity transmission equipment is on the rampant increase in Kenya. The incumbent national telecommunication operator; Telkom Kenya Limited, and the national power transmission company; Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), are seriously faced with this vice. They are both suffering a combined total loss of Kshs1.6 billion between 2004 and 2009. It is clear from the Minister’s response that there are glaring inadequacies in the law dealing with vandalism and trading in scrap metals. Can the Minister tell this House whether the Government intents to impose a total ban on the export of scrap metal especially copper when it is obvious that Kenya does not mine even a single kilogramme of copper? Further, can the Minister also admit that the current cut throat competition being experienced in the telecommunication industry has led to the emergence of a crime of corporate sabotage exemplified in incidents where a cable communication fibre is vandalized immediately a new fibre belonging to a competitor is laid on the same route of the existing fibre? Not a single operator with---"}