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"content": "(Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona spoke off the record)"
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"content": " Excellent. Proceed."
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"content": " It is true that we want to appreciate the work of the Cabinet Secretary on matters related to the requested parliamentary statements. Hon. Lekuton, Member of Parliament for Laisamis Constituency, had requested a statement, and the following are the submissions: The first question requested a comprehensive report detailing the project implementation matrix from inception to accomplishment, key milestones, and the number of turbines KenGen intends to install. The project is located within Loiyangalani and North Horr Wards. KenGen conducted a comprehensive technical feasibility study between 2020 and 2023 through the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) as an interested financier. Several critical factors, including resource availability, minimum environmental impact, proximity to existing infrastructure and robust community engagement, guided the site selection. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "Phase I of the project will consist of 45 megawatt turbines totalling 200 megawatts and a 52.5-kilometre transmission line to the sub-station in Sirima. Phase II of the project will have an 800-megawatt installed capacity. Below is a breakdown of activities already undertaken. It is quite lengthy, and I hope Hon. Lekuton has a copy. It is a table of activities already undertaken up to completion of the feasibility study that started in February 2019, where there was an application for Marsabit County Government to develop wind power, followed thereabouts up to now, March 2025, where we have the environmental impact assessment report being prepared. Lastly, the free prior and information consultation and consent has been going on since 2019. The second question was about the total acreage of land KenGen intends to use for the project, including the buffer zone. The Marsabit Wind Farm project will require approximately 49,800 hectares to accommodate the installation of wind turbine generators, supporting infrastructure and internal road networks. This includes 365 square kilometres in Loiyangalani Ward and 56 square kilometres in North Horr Ward. The designated area accounts for the necessary buffer zone and transmission way leave. The third question was about the action taken by KenGen to address the concerns raised during public participation as a precedent for the project implementation. It is important to appreciate that KenGen has carried out extensive engagement with the community and other stakeholders. In a joint workshop held on the 21st and 22nd March 2025 in Isiolo which included representatives from the five ingenious communities, council of elders, professionals, women, youth and persons living with disability, it was agreed that certain issues raised would be addressed through technical studies while other issues would be resolved during environmental and social impact assessment report that will be going on. The fourth question was about assurance that the planned infrastructural development stemming from the project, especially roads, will traverse Laisamis Constituency. The response is that the primary mandate of KenGen is power generation. However, the company will collaborate with the relevant Government institutions to ensure that the project equipment is safely transported to the site. KenGen will continue to monitor the various efforts being made in the area on road construction or modifications. A final decision will be taken at the project implementation stage based on the best route that will be more efficient, especially considering wide loads requiring a large clearance. Lastly, regarding the project's funding framework, the response is that the Marsabit Wind Farm Project’s total investment is approximately €450 million, and a development finance institution is developing the transmission line. At present, KfW and AFD have been involved in the project from 2018 to 2024. KenGen will also leverage Government incentives or subsidies. The financing negotiations of the project have not yet begun. We have Question No. 6 on modalities for how KenGen intends to implement the project prior to fully acquiring the community land. The response is that KenGen is waiting for the completion of the community land registration, as other preparatory studies such as Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), Birds and Bats survey, and Free Prior and Informed Consent continue. Therefore, the implementation of the project will only occur after the pending issues have been addressed. Hon. Temporary Speaker, that is the response from the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Opiyo Wandayi."
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"content": "Thank you."
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"content": " Hon. Lekuton."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. While I thank my Colleague, the Hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy, for the good answers, I feel he has left many of my questions unanswered. Allow me to go one by one on the six questions that he has just answered. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "I find it very difficult to believe that six years down the road of doing feasibility studies…"
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"content": " Hon. Chairman, I hope you are taking note of all the questions he intends to ask. Proceed."
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"content": " I find it hard to believe that six years after the feasibility studies and even the road survey have been done, KenGen is still not sure where the road will go through. I feel and smell a sinister motive in this specific question. It is not well answered; I need more clarification because any society that produces energy must be rewarded, and one of those rewards is infrastructure. A society will not develop without infrastructural activities on its soil. Secondly, in my request for a statement, I also asked where the headquarters of this KenGen project will be located. We know for sure that almost 90 per cent of the project is in Laisamis Constituency. Again, the answer to that question is vague. Feasibility studies have been done for almost four years, yet the information given to the public participants, including the local men and women who cannot read and write, professionals and anyone who lives in that area, is piecemeal. They are not given answers in full. They are introducing any chapter they want, bringing it on, and leaving out the ones they do not like. Therefore, feasibility studies must be well documented and presented. The fourth issue is that KenGen should conduct public participation in its entity, as far as the communities living there are concerned. We have the Elmolo, Turkana, Rendille, Samburu and many tribes that live there, but KenGen has chosen to call each individual group to Isiolo and talk to them. This is a collective effort. This is community land. All those people should be brought together with the professionals of Laisamis Constituency because different information is given to each group separately. Therefore, the community cannot comprehend the entire issue of how KenGen will operate on their land. On the issue of commitment to land registration, there is no signed document by KenGen indicating that no project will start until the community land is fully registered. That is another mistake they have made, and we need the issue clarified. They have also not answered the number of turbines located within Laisamis Constituency. Now that we know 200 megawatts will be installed and each turbine will carry several megawatts, we need to know the number of megawatts that will be located within Laisamis for us to discern how much of our land is being used by KenGen to produce power. This is a very serious issue that affects the people of northern Kenya, whose only chance is the wind resource. The people are not well- engaged by KenGen. None of what the people say is being taken into consideration. I beg you to allow the Departmental Committee on Energy to visit Mt. Kulal in Loiyangalani to look at the site where KenGen will put up the power plant. That way, this Parliament will understand what we are talking about. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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