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    "id": 788419,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. Energy is very critical and especially in the modern world where we talk of nuclear energy, which has been captured in this Bill. In the previous laws, the issue of nuclear energy was not well-captured. Issues of environment have also been captured in this Bill. The issues of wayleave where electricity or power lines go through somebody’s land which renders some of the areas unusable or make construction impossible because of the power lines have now been captured in this Bill. It was not there previously. Under the Constitution, we have to compensate the persons who have been displaced for purposes of electricity wayleave. Kenya is planning to construct two major dams which will also generate electricity. One of them is the Thwake-Athi Dam, which is being constructed where River Athi and the Thwake River, which are great rivers in Eastern, meet. Luckily, this is in Makueni Constituency. Construction is about to begin. There is also the High Grand Falls Dam, which is even much bigger than the Thwake Dam on Tana River where we are already producing electricity. This is for the simple reason that with insufficient rain - and we must really thank God for the rains - electricity production was going down. We were resorting to diesel production which was very expensive. Kenyans started getting unusually expensive bills. There were all manner of 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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