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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, time has come for us to mix politics with morality. As I speak, if you look at Paragraph 3.6.6 at page 48 – Land Rights of Minority Communities – and, again, these are human beings who require to be addressed. As far as I am concerned, if you look at page 49, you will find Paragraph 3.6.7 – Disaster Management. Again, this country has been challenged by this situation. When I was the Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development, one of the biggest challenges we had was how to deal with the slum areas, not only in the Nairobi Metropolitan Region, but in the other six metropolitan regions that are under Vision 2030. The time for this country to accept the responsibility for those people living in what the booklet is politely calling “informal settlements”. Let us face it! Kenyans are living in slums where people are using “flying” toilets, where people have no claim to the land they occupy and the landowners there are using a cash cow because the income coming from this hoarding is not taxable; it is not known anywhere. The consequence of this situation is that even as hon. Mutava sits here as a pastor, it is embarrassing for a country, 46 years after Independence to have categories of citizenship whereby some people are going home to street-lit streets and yet a huge segment of this country in urban centres are going home to darkness. That darkness is created by lack of policies, like the hon. Minister is suggesting."
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