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    "id": 1254475,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1254475/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "asking: “Who asked you for a house?” As much as nobody has asked me for a house, young men and women are asking me for jobs every day I walk around my constituency. The housing agenda is much more beyond houses. It is about the creation of jobs. It is about creation of wealth. It is about spurring an economic development and growth in this economy that will be unmatched from the heavy investment that will come out of this Housing Levy. We all agree on the need for this Housing Levy. In the morning, I heard two lawyer Members of high esteem, one of them a senior counsel, saying housing is a devolved function under Schedule 4 of the Constitution. They forgot to mention that housing is a fundamental human right that the Government is required to provide to the people of Kenya under Article 43 of the Constitution. I could not bear not ask myself why we are taxing Kenyans to provide healthcare that is devolved. I watched Hon. Otiende Amollo trying to prosecute that case in the morning and arguing that we cannot tax Kenyans to provide housing to Kenyans. Why are we taxing Kenyans to provide water that is devolved? This Bill has huge incentives for our manufacturing sector. It is true that under the last regime, the Jubilee Party regime, prior to 2017 post 2018 after the handshake, the Big Four Agenda had some of these proposals to grow our manufacturing contribution to the GDP from 9 to 15 per cent. Instead, it fell from 9 to 7 per cent."
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