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    "id": 822575,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Energy Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 50 of 2017) be now read a Second Time. This is an important Bill. My colleagues who were in the last Parliament will remember that we debated, made amendments and passed this Bill. It was presented to the President for presidential assent and there were protracted negotiations when it was returned back to Parliament by the President. The Bill lapsed with the last Parliament and it had to be introduced afresh. What will interest many Senators is that, unlike many other Bills, this Bill has been published with the amendments that the Senate and the National Assembly made in the last Parliament, including the issues that were raised by Members in the last Parliament. Wisdom has it that we grow from one stage of knowledge to another. Perhaps, because time has changed, new ideas could have come up. So, Parliament is in order, in its wisdom, to consider the Bill afresh and incorporate the concerns that have come from members of the public. As I go to the details of this Bill, although I cannot exhaust them and most of the Members will raise various issues, I want to mention a few things that this Bill is talking about. If you read the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, Part 1 talks of energy as a function of the national Government. Part 2 of the Fourth Schedule provides that electricity and gas reticulation and energy regulation is a function of the county governments. I have seen some counties struggling to explain why they should have their own rural electrification or an agency that deals with regulation of energy. Some even complain that they have not been given the power to regulate. One of the issues that almost led to the impeachment of the Governor for Kericho County was the solar energy. There was a public/private partnership agreement that was considered to be fraudulent. In the first term of county governments, many counties were fighting to have the opportunity to generate energy for themselves. People felt that they were being let down by companies that deal with energy regulation like the Kenya Power Company and the Rural Electrification Authority and so on."
}