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    "id": 1014073,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014073/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13119,
        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
        "slug": "agnes-zani"
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    "content": "This Bill will bring some level of organization. With many units within an area, there is likely to be order if there is a Bill that guides development. This Bill delved deep to look into the overall overarching issues, such as having a corporation and board to ensure that the Sectional Properties Bill is adhered to. The Bill also highlights how a unit should be acquired or disposed of. The Bill intends to bring order. Kenya, being a middle income country, there are many people who are interested in housing, but some cannot afford due to the high costs involved. However, when we have the sort of units proposed in this Bill, it will bring down the cost of housing. As the Members who spoke before me said, many Kenyans have had the misfortune of being caught up in own-plans arrangements because they do not have the legal protection that this Bill offers. Kenyans do not have the level of corporation or board that will be put in place, and that has left many people exposed. This is an extensive Bill that deals with many other administrative issue that have to do with administrative expenses, recovery of money, investments, requirements of sectional plans, liability, duties of the corporation, duties of the board, renting of the units, leasing and giving up of the units, termination of sectional properties, sale of sectional properties, assessment and taxation, liability of the corporation, offence and penalties. The Bill provides for a division of building into units to be owned by individual proprietors. By doing that, the use and management of the units and common property for connected purposes is entrenched and put into place. The various definitions have been given clearly. Some of the clauses in this Bill are very definite in involving certain key players in housing. For instance, Clause 4(2) states that: - ‘A surveyor shall not prepare a sectional plan unless he is presented with proof of ownership of the parcel or unit to which the sectional plan shall apply’"
}