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    "id": 993143,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/993143/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to speak with nostalgia. I was the Medical Officer of Health in Wajir County in 1967 to 1968. It is with horror that at time we had a simple generator that only supplied power to the District Commissioner’s (DC), the police commandant and the Medical officer’s houses. Even when I used to do the operations in the hospital, I used the foot pump to be able to do the kind of operations I needed. If one travels the length and width of Wajir County, it is very expansive. From Wajir itself to Griftu, Burma, Gural near the border with Ethiopia, northwards towards Mandera or southwards to Habaswein and towards Garissa, it is a very vast county. The other day we were there as the Senate Committee on Education. I do not understand why in the 21st Century, there is no stability of power or energy in Wajir County. It is all that the people of Wajir need because the water surface is very low. They can dig boreholes and get very clean and serviceable water using power. I do not understand why the Ministry of Energy or for that matter Kenya Power Company cannot tap the solar energy which is in abundance. There is so much sunshine that they can store up so much solar much cheaper and clean energy that they can use for all the purposes rather than being subjected to electricity outages now and then. It can be very frustrating, particularly in an area which has some other security concerns."
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