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    "id": 788319,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Governors (CoG), which was headed by Hon. Kimemia, the Governor of Nyandarua, the KEPSA, the KOGA, Natural Justice, Turkana County Assembly; the Turkana County Government and there was a community from Narok; the Keikoyek community. We also had an opportunity to get a memorandum from the African Centre for Technology Studies, the Conservation Alliance of Kenya, the Turkana University and College Students Association, and Nakuru and Narok county governments. They visited the committee and were able to give their submissions. I want to thank the committee members for the very good work that they did. We were able to have a total of 27 public meetings with the public in various counties and over 25 sittings with respective stakeholders. The Report of the Committee contains a number of proposed amendments to the Bill for adoption and shall be brought during the Committee of the whole House. One of the issues that we realised when we went out for public participation is the need to harmonise the Energy Bill and the Petroleum Exploration Development and Production Bill. I request the Members of Parliament to be a bit careful when we will be debating. Some of the provisions in the Energy Bill have already been moved to the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill because that is where they belong, particularly the mid-stream and down-stream aspect of Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill. The whole of Part V has been taken to the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill. At the same time there are other aspects in the Petroleum Exploration Development and Production Bill which have been brought back to the Energy Bill. One of them is the consolidation of the Commission in the Energy Bill and the Advisory Committee. So, this Bill has brought the need to harmonise the two Bills. Secondly, prior to this, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) just used to give drivers of the petroleum products a licence to drive these trucks. When the driver would adulterate the fuel, the ERC would only withdraw the licence from him. Now, we have included penalties and jail terms for any driver who is found adulterating petroleum products, be it petroleum or gas and even the shambas . We wanted to propose, but we thought it was not proper for us to have a special police force to be attached to the Ministry to deal with these shambas where there is fuel adulteration. Hon. Speaker, fuel adulteration is one of the worst crimes. Recently, some transportation companies’ drivers were caught adulterating a product that is meant for export. It, therefore, means that Rwanda, Uganda or any other landlocked country would never trust Kenya for business. Therefore, these are some of the issues that this Bill has brought as was suggested by the public. They wanted some action to be taken on the drivers and not just withdrawing their licenses. I have also mentioned that Part V will be moving to the Energy Bill and the National Integrated Energy Plan should, therefore, be developed in consultation with the private sector."
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