{"id":922017,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/922017/?format=json","text_counter":29,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order 48(1), to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Energy with regard to the billing scandal at the national power utility company, Kenya Power (KP). In the Statement, the Committee should - (1) Itemize and give justification for the various cause elements billed or levied to prepaid electricity consumers; (2) Establish the circumstances that have led to prepaid electricity consumers being billed an element referred to as “Total debt” when purchasing tokens, effective 1st July, 2019; (3) Outline the action taken by the KP against the employees who orchestrated the fraud; (4) State the measures that the KP is putting in place to strengthen their internal checks and accounting system; and, (5) Explain what recourse the affected customers have in their quest to recover funds lost in the fraud. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."}