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    "id": 822686,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/822686/?format=api",
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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 have listened to all the quality presentations from the Senate Minority Leader, the Members of the Committee on Energy and Sen. Cheruiyot who is a Member of the Committee. This is one of those Bills where there are quality contributions because we hold dearly matters of energy. The reason why energy is not part of the big four agenda is because it is a cross cutting issue and an enabler. We cannot create industrial growth when the cost of power is high. We need energy to ensure we have food security and grow food. It is a very important sector. Secondly, I would like to persuade my colleagues, including the Senate Minority Leader who made a very eloquent presentation to spend time to study about the authority. The authority is the first stage of enforcement of all matters of energy. What everyone should appreciate is that we are not debating about Kenya Power Company, KenGen and Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) because they are the ones that carry the energy, distributing and reticulating. What this Bill has done is to ensure that you create an authority that will oversight the other agencies that are going to implement it. Also, it will give room for county governments to create their own equivalent of KPC and KETRACO in future when they have that capacity to do so. Subsequently, the questions raised by the Senate Minority Leader about enforcement and power reaching everybody are contained in the 46 functions listed for the Authority. The Authority is the first stage of enforcement. If it is unable to deliver matters related to faulty bills, wayleave"
}