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"content": "living in that place should have had the priority to own. However, you know this was not a completely affordable housing project. That is where the problem came from. People were living on that property before the construction and also the land belongs to the county government. So, we would expect that people who were living there would be given priority. It was a private property development. I think there were challenges. The Ministry also agreed that there were challenges. We said because the first phase of houses is over, in the second phase, they will be given priority. We are also doing other houses in Mombasa around Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), where we have taken land and it is coming up. Bring the list and they will be given priority because it is also an affordable housing programme. I do not think they should be stuck there at Buxton. I know you have had a conversation with my Principal Secretary. Follow it up until these 180 people get their houses. Thank you. I am aware of the case. However, the first phase is done and that is why we still have a problem. I am sure you are now following for the next phase."
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"content": " Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Sen. Cherarkey?"
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Cabinet Secretary for Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development, Madam Alice Wahome. In Kapsabet Town, we have 80 per cent complete of more than 200 housing units. My supplementary question to the Cabinet Secretary concerning housing is to find out how many affordable housing programmes her Ministry allocated per county across the 47 counties. What is she doing to work closely with the county governments, the 47 county governments across the country? I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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"content": " Cabinet Secretary?"
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"content": " Thank you very much for that supplementary question, Sen. Cherarkey. Let me first go by the constituency, the sub-counties. In our programme, every sub-county is entitled to at least 220 housing units, both social, affordable, and at times a few at market rate to subsidise the social and affordable housing. So, when we talk about every constituency with 220 that means 290 constituencies. Members of Parliament (MPs) are working with us. Those who have not started should pick up the issue, so that we identify land together at the national Government level. Our priority is national Government land because there is less challenge there. In every sub-county, we do have at least two-and-a-half acres. If we work well, we can get two to three acres for the first 220 housing units. So, if your constituency, as an MP, does not have that, let us work together. We have not been able to identify land, but we will move that way. We are not going per county because some counties have less population. We are guided a lot sometimes by the need and availability of land. However, every county will The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "have its share. The bigger projects we are taking up are at least 1,200. In other counties, we have even gone up to 5,000. In Nairobi, for example, since it is a capital City, it has a bigger population. If you go to Mukuru, we have 13,750 housing units. By the end of this year, if the President agrees to launch the projects, we should be able to release about five blocks that are ready and are over 1,000 housing units. I am very confident. What we are waiting for are the lifts for those particular five blocks. The total that we plan to do per year is 200,000 units. That is our plan. We expect that within the next three years, working with this term, we will be able to do one million houses if everything being constant. In Nairobi, we also are doing houses along Jogoo Road, Starehe, South B, Park Road, Parklands and I think near Kabete. So, maybe Nairobi will be the biggest beneficiary because of its population. However, we are working in every county. The second question is: Are we working with the governors? Also, there is the National Housing Corporation (NHC) that is, so far now, doing very well. We have houses in Homa Bay with NHC. We have houses in Embu, which within one year of launching those projects, are almost complete. We are also in Nyandarua, Homa Bay, Kisumu Town, and Embu with NHC. I am very sure in the next six months, we will be giving them out. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, even though the question has been pulled out by the owner, there is other information which is in my report and the Senators can read it. So far, we have 124,000 housing units, providing by way of job creation to around 150,000 jobs for this particular number of housing units. Our target is 200,000 and the number of jobs for the youth should double to around 250,000. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is an impact on the ground because of this job creation. We also do extra schools, dispensaries and health facilities around these projects. That is part of the social amenities that we come up with. We will not just drop a project of 1,000 house units without looking at the facilities around it. Do we have a school? Is the population of the school going to explode because of the new population? Automatically it will. Sometimes we have to do a new school. We can also expand an existing school or dispensary or the health centres depending on the space. So, maybe I have said enough of that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to appeal to Kenyans to support this programme. This is one of the best programmes of the national Government. Within the next year, the impact of this programme will be felt."
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"content": " Cabinet Secretary, there seems to be a lot of interest in this housing issue. I will take one question from Sen. Olekina and another question from Sen. Crystal Asige and those will be the last supplementary questions."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am not a pessimist. I like to be a realist. I have listened to the good Cabinet Secretary stating that for Narok County, we will have 1,320 houses. We have six sub-counties in Narok County. She has indicated that there are 220 units in every sub-county. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Madam Cabinet Secretary and I strongly believe that you mean well. Can you tell this House where you have identified the land for the 220 houses in Narok East Constituency, 220 houses for Narok North Constituency, 220 houses for Emurwe Dikir Constituency, Kilgoris Constituency and Narok South Constituency? While at it, Madam Cabinet Secretary, I would like you to apprise the Senate---"
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"content": " Just one question, Sen. Olekina. We are only taking one question from you."
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