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    "id": 91473,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I want to say I support Vote 30 - Ministry of Energy, very strongly. Many of my colleagues have talked about rural electrification. Again, I want to echo those words by saying that they have done a great job and I want to ask them to continue. There is a little bit of a problem. The previous speaker talked about wires, wires with no electricity. I think we have a lot of projects that are completed by contractors but they are not connected because there are no transformers and so forth. In my constituency, I can count five and if we start the work for this financial year, I am sure they are going to be more. So while congratulating the CEO and his staff, I ask him to expedite the work. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company is also doing a lot of work but I want to fault their emergency system. In this city, you can stay for 24 hours without power even after having contacted emergency service. Only two days ago, I had to get the Managing Director of KPLC to give me power after I had stayed without power for 24 hours even though I was calling the emergency line after every one hour. I am able to reach the MD. He is a very good person, I congratulate him. What about those people who cannot reach the MD? Something needs to be done to address that issue. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk about coal. For the last 13 years, I have been talking about coal in my constituency which remains there unexploited. I am glad the Minister this morning said they are doing something. I hope in the next one month, I can see international tender in the newspapers so that we can have coal in Mui basin exploited. Finally, the price of fuel continues to be very high. The Minister has allowed multi-nationals to milk Kenyans by increasing prices of oil whenever they want when we know it is not the same internationally. I ask the Minister to look into this. I beg to support."
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