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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "and moves with it and erects it in the next 100 kilometres. Even herios have been connected with electricity. I was with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of Energy and Petroleum last weekend. I do not know whether the Member for Mbalambala is here. We went to his constituency and 75 houses or herio huts were connected in a village called Bulakuro in Mbalambala, my former constituency. One elder told me: “I think the world is coming to an end in Somali land.” I asked him why and he said: “I never thought this can happen.” You can deny Uhuru Kenyatta anything else, many things, but three successive governments combined did 2.1 million connections to Kenyans. He added 3.5 million connections in five years. The Member for Budalangi who is a ranking Member… We must introduce ranking Members. They must be recognized. Last night, I was watching the US Senate when they were grilling the CEO of Facebook. When ranking Member of either side of the House was asking questions, their names were put on the screen. They would show whether it is the Member for Ntonyiri or Igembe North Constituency who we served with in the 9th Parliament. If it would be Hon. T.J. or Member for Budalangi, it would be shown. The Member for Budalangi misbehaved a bit and left but now he is back. He was given some contract but he never delivered. He is a ranking Member. He is telling me the huts in Budalangi are connected. So, give the devil his due. You might not like Uhuru Kenyatta but when it comes to electricity, he did more than anybody else. The percentage that is connected in every constituency is over 50 per cent. We want to do it. We want the whole country to be connected the way he wants to provide universal healthcare. Part VI deals with the licencing of electricity generation, transmission and distribution. Part VII deals with the rights of way, way leaves, use of land for energy resources and infrastructure. It deals with communities. It is dealing with how you deal with transmission lines passing through community private lands. It deals with where the resources are found whether they be geothermal, wind and solar. We went to the border between my constituency and Mbalambala where you find the 50 megawatts solar projects costing Kshs13 billion. The biggest solar project in East and Central Africa is in Garissa County and it because of the sand. The guys who wanted to put it there were looking for sand. It will generate 54 to 55 average aggregate megawatts of power. Not all the power will be used by the people of Garissa. It will be connected to the national grid and sold to other regions because there is a transmission line from Garsen all the way to the Garissa sub-station. So you can see where the distribution of these energy resources. Geothermal energy is mainly in Naivasha, Narok, Baringo County and Elgeyo Marakwet County. How those matters will be dealt with is found in Part VII of the Bill. The proposals are meant to streamline and provide a one-stop-shop for issues of way leaves and rights of way in the energy sector. Once this Bill is assented to, an investor in the energy sector sitting in Hong Kong does not need to come and talk to the CS of Energy and Petroleum. He will look at the Bill by accessing it online and see whether he can invest in the geothermal area or in the transmission area – individually or through partnership with KETRACO. This Bill is very important. It wants to provide a one-stop shop on issues of way leaves, rights of way and what goes on in the energy sector in our country. Part VIII deals with energy efficiency and conservation. How can we use the energy resource we have more efficiently and conserve it? That is Part VIII of the Bill. It contains provisions relating to the roles of the national and county governments in energy efficiency and conservation. That part also prescribes penalties and provides for adjudication mechanisms. It further provides for the establishment of funds for energy conservation at the national and county levels. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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