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    "id": 1110837,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Government leases it and provides services so that all the money goes towards paying doctors, rent, providing medicines and we make progress. Right now we end up using a lot of money and hence we end up borrowing heavily to meet our capital expenditure, which should have been provided by people whose core business is to provide premises. We have seen a shift in roads. I am very happy with what is happening with the expressway on Mombasa Road and many other Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects that will come. I hope this Bill will encourage landlords in the future to seize the opportunity to put up premises not just for corporate tenants or individual tenants, but also for the county governments and the national Government. We thought by the time the Government started leasing out premises owned by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), there would be a shift towards that direction, but even in this House we are occasionally being asked to provide money for Government Ministries and agencies to put up their own office blocks, which end up consuming billions of shillings. That is a mind-set we will hopefully address in the future. By and large, I believe we will pass this Bill. I do not want to repeat myself but I am happy that the Committee has put a lot of time in reviewing it. They have prepared their Report, which was tabled in this House one-and-a- and half months ago. So, I expect Members to have had opportunity to look through the Report of the Committee so that as they participate in the debate, they take that Report into account. Also, looking through the amendments, we will be doing as we did with the NHIF. We will be guided by the need to do what is in the best interest of our country by providing for a balance between the interests of tenants and those of landlords and facilitating investments in that area. With those remarks, I beg to move and request Hon. Pkosing as the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Housing, Public Works and Transport, but more specifically to focus on the housing component, to second."
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