{"id":90507,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/90507/?format=json","text_counter":141,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Eng. M.M. Mahamud","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Energy","speaker":{"id":373,"legal_name":"Mohammed Maalim Mahamud","slug":"mohammed-mahamud"},"content":" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Kitui and Mwingi are supplied with electricity from Kindaruma Dam by a 33KV line. The main cause of power interruption is transformer vandalism. For example, in the last one month and a half, 14 transformers were vandalized in Kitui and its environs. On July 26th 2010, the 2.5 megavolt amps transformer at Kitui 3311KV primary sub-station failed due to vandalism, putting the whole of Kitui Town in darkness. The transformer was replaced with a similar one on July 27th 2010. (b) My Ministry is putting in place the following measures: We have upped the"}