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    "id": 788379,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbogo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13383,
        "legal_name": "Ali Menza Mbogo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this very important Bill, the Energy Bill, 2017. From the outset, I want to congratulate the Departmental Committee on Energy for the job well done. To be sincere, the Committee received so many memoranda and visited so many parts of this country to discuss and engage the public on this important Bill. I have been in the energy sector for the last 20 years, and so, this is my specialty. I am very comfortable contributing to this Bill. I want to say here without fear of contradiction that this Bill has captured many of the challenges that the energy sector is facing, especially on the upstream, midstream and downstream operations. Secondly, for the first time, this Bill has introduced a tribunal that will give an opportunity to Kenyans to air their grievances whenever they feel they have not been addressed adequately. However, I wish to concur with my colleague on the part of the ERC. I wish the Chairman of the Committee takes the issues we have raised seriously because there is a contradiction on some of the roles of the ERC. If you remember many years back, the licensing role was in the hands of the Permanent Secretary. The powers of licensing were given to the ERC, but if you look at this Bill, it is trying to take those powers away from the ERC and giving them to the CS. That should be taken into consideration so that we can continue the way we have been doing things. On the same ERC matter, if you look at it, it is being referred to as a commission. We all know commissions are bodies that have a timeline. It is a commission that will be there for a number of years. If you look at the ERC today, the tasks that they have doing for this country are massive. It is high time we reconsider that, maybe, it needs to be renamed to become a full authority with full mandate to take charge of the energy sector. When you say it is a commission, it is considered like the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and other commissions that will be there for five years. There is a feeling that it can be disbanded any time. 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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