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    "id": 915422,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915422/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "In totality, as a Member of Parliament for Nambale I will be extremely excited that perhaps, once we solve our transmission problems, the issue of quantum of energy and its supply will buttress this system so that we can go for a week or ten days without power failure. In some countries, if there is any sort of failure, they transfer to an alternative instantaneously. But here, you can be in the middle of something important and then, there is a black out. I wonder how hospitals manage. They lose power, not even for one hour, but o a whole day. In such instances, if we say people died because of power failure, they think we are trying to sabotage the Government or the economy. We do not think about these issues in an open. As we get into areas of this nature, I hope we will open our minds and have people who truly understand the industry starting from the cabinet secretaries. I also hope some of the discussions I heard today on television about a Cabinet Secretary being called “our man” or “from our region” will not arise. I hope, in future, we will not have cabinet secretaries of that nature. There should be no Cabinet Secretary from the energy-rich region and in any case, there is no nuclear energy region as it were. I hope we get out of that and begin to appreciate people for what they contribute to this economy and appreciate the services they add to the welfare of the people of Kenya. Poverty levels are quite high. Even though we have moved into the middle- income status, we have parents having it difficult to pay Kshs9,000 that is supposed to be paid for school fees. As we do all these things, we must have leadership that thinks about the ordinary person who we call Wanjiku, but I loathe Wanjiku revolution. Those are just side-tracks. We must think fundamentally about how these initiatives are going to lead to a lifestyle that will benefit the person at the bottom. If we do that, we in Nambale in Busia and our country at large, which is not in the million-shilling or million-dollar income bracket, will feel the difference."
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