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    "id": 793161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. As I oppose this amendment, what is Hon. Nassir looking for? He is looking to kill what is called “monopoly”. Okay? There is a law in this country that this House passed, the Competition Act. There is an Authority that deals with that. But, if you read Clause 145, it is already providing for competition through open access. A person who wishes to carry out exploration, exploitation, importation, transmission, distribution and retail supply of electricity, must apply for a licence. So, already that clause has killed any element of monopoly and it has opened up the open access system. That basically answers Hon. Nassir’s question. We do not want to legislate for the sake of it. It says, ‘must apply’. Secondly, the distribution of power is twofold. One, it is the infrastructure. The infrastructure is a monopoly. You cannot have a country where Hon. Mbadi will build his lines to a certain estate and Hon. Duale builds his to a different estate. Those services are not available. So, the distribution lines in our country are a monopoly. The guys who do the major transmission lines are the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO). They are the ones who do the major transmission lines. The power line is a function of KPLC. If you have one megawatt of geothermal in your farm, the transmission lines give you an opportunity to hook into that line and sell it to KPLC. Hon. Nassir is my good friend and he told me that if the House convinces him, he would drop that amendment. I really beg him; whatever he wants to do has been taken care of in Clause 145. I am very honest. If you look at Clause 145, for the first time it has created…there will be no monopoly, whether you want to export power, transmit or supply. Clause 145 says that you just need to apply through the open access system."
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