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    "id": 91471,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. I want to thank the Ministry for the good work they are doing especially on connections. It is really a tremendous improvement in terms of connectivity. Nonetheless, there are challenges that have also been mentioned by my colleague. In particular, the Rural Electrification Authority appears to have been restricted to only connecting electricity to secondary schools and urban centres in rural constituencies. This is excluding certain areas from benefiting at all from these allocations. I have in mind my constituency. For instance, we have not been able to utilize a penny of this amount for the last two years although we are being told that we have been fully connected. It is imperative that as we try to connect the rest of the country to the national grid, we also connect areas that need these services. The other issue is about the energy options. I think the Minister needs also to take into consideration the special advantage this country has especially with regard to solar energy. The technologies we are embarking on about nuclear energy and the rest are basically suitable for countries in temperate zones whereas here we are very close to the equator where the solar energy is abundantly available. The main challenge we have is that there is not even a cheap available technology which is accessible to our people so that they can install this solar energy conveniently. The Government should lay stress in making this technology available and affordable to our people. I beg to support."
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