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    "id": 836142,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/836142/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD–K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Eseli Simiyu",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Member’s Petition and urge the Departmental Committee on Energy that when they consider this Petition, they look keenly and find out if there is any agreement with the Ethiopian Government - which is supposed to be a friendly government - on whether we can share electricity with that country. I come from a border county. Originally, most of the power supply in Kenya came from the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja. We had a proper framework of how to share this power. In the case of Moyale, the Departmental Committee on Energy would be prudent to inquire into this matter to find out if there are possibilities of coming up with a legal framework with the Ethiopian Government on how we can share electricity with them to ensure that the people of Moyale are not left out of the electrification programme for Kenyans. The people of Moyale are also Kenyans and they should be supplied with electricity from either Ethiopia or elsewhere."
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