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    "id": 7325,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "safety net. I am yet to hear any presidential candidate pledging to give free healthcare which is a very important safety net. If they are not able to give this, it will be very difficult to attain whatever level of development that we want to attain. If you look at electricity, you will find that the way we have handled our energy sector is skewed to the extent that right now, factory owners are virtually unable to produce at peak rates because the power bills are too high. I know of some flower farmers in Trans Nzoia whose bills are over Kshs5 million a month. They cannot possibly make any profit and they end up laying off workers, therefore, increasing the rural poverty, yet such people are supposed to alleviate the rural poverty by the high number of people that they employ. We have one of the largest reserves of geothermal energy in the world. We have refused to exploit it to the maximum, so that we can bring down the cost of our energy, especially that of electricity. So, we have failed to have our priorities right, mainly because of vested interests. Since Independence, we have not had any people-friendly Government in place, in the sense that there is lack of political will, which is influenced by profiteering tendencies of the individuals who are supposed to take care of these areas. I do not want to use the word “corruption”. Those individuals further their profiteering interests at the expense of the common mwananchi . That is what has caused the problems that we have in the country today."
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