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    "id": 1014064,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "All these infrastructural programs will continue making Nairobi more and more modern. More and more people will flock to Nairobi. The more they do so, the more we do not want them to go to low income regions. We want them to go to formal areas and stay in high-rise buildings. We want to educate our people not to think that once they get little money, they should go looking for small land and put up small houses. They should instead own an apartment. That way, their cost goes down. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you were to go to Kamulu, own a small piece of land and then put up a house, what does that mean? The Government will come looking for you to give you water and electricity. That will be so expensive. You are alone down there in the bush. However, assuming you came to Kilimani and bought an apartment, it means that 200 people or 300 families are being supplied with electricity or water at a very cheaper rate in comparison to that one person in Kamulu, who is in a remote place. When you are in one apartment, it will be very easy for the Government to offer services at a cheaper cost. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are not in this world for 200 or 150 years. We are only here for a short-term. People must get out of that notion of owning privately secured land somewhere alone. They need to start embracing the idea of living in apartments, which is what is being underpinned by this Bill. That way, you not only provide services at a cheaper rate as a Government, but also security. Your own security is better guaranteed when you live with many people in one space. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are more synergies that leverage once people start living in one high-rise building or one concentrated place as opposed to people who are very dispersed. Even building roads will become cheaper as opposed to one road leading to a place, which is 500 kilometres away from Nairobi. Please, Kenyans out there who are watching me, let us embrace the concept called ownership of property by strata or vertical ownership of property. That is the philosophy underpinning this Bill. I beg to move and urge my sister, Sen. Petronilla Were, to second this important Bill."
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