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    "id": 1216879,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1216879/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I am happy because this regime is not just about talk but action. We have not only spoken about the housing agenda, but we have also allocated a figure of Ksh1.5 billion in this First Supplementary Budget. If you look through the request by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and Public Works, who is here, Hon. Ng’eno, they wanted Ksh8 billion. However, I am glad because the Budget and Appropriations Committee spared Ksh1.5 billion to ensure that we have seed capital for affordable housing in all our 290 constituencies. I encourage MPs to identify public land in their constituencies where affordable housing can be done with this seed capital coming in. As Hon. Babu Owino has said, this will spur economic activities, create jobs for millions of our youth, and have a ripple effect in our economies down at the grassroots. When you build 100 housing units in Kikuyu or Karachuonyo Constituency, the number of youth you will employ will not be less than 2,000. The indirect and ripple effect of those economic activities, out of this housing agenda, will be momentous. That is why I said it is not about empty talk."
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