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    "id": 822536,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/822536/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank Sen. Khaniri for this Statement. I urge the Committee that takes this up expands the area they are looking at. It is true as Sen. Cherargei has said that Kenyans were very happy with the last mile connectivity project of this Government. But we need to understand that access to electricity is not just having the metre. It is affording it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, affordability is a huge part of access to electricity. It is something that needs to be subsidized for Kenyans. We cannot be the highest in the region at Kshs15 per kilowatt hour while our neighbour Uganda are at Kshs12 and the rest as Sen. Khaniri enumerated. Two things come to mind. I would urge Sen. (Eng.) Maina’s Committee to look at, first, urban connections. Almost 10 per cent of this country lives in Nairobi. Of that 10 per cent, more than 50 per cent are in informal settlements. Because those in informal settlements cannot afford electricity, they resort to illegal connections that have been the cause of untold disaster in this city. We have a fire every few weeks. Many of these fires are caused by illegal power connections."
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