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    "id": 1289125,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this issue is not confined only to Pumwani. It is affecting the whole country. The housing issue is a devolved function. The county governments are now transferring public lands to individual developers. I would like to give an example of Buxton Estate in Mombasa, which is before our Committee, which I happen to be a Member of. In Buxton, the land is 12 acres and the value is Kshs3.6 billion. The former tenants were evicted. They were given rent for one year. Up to today, the developer of that project has not completed it. The poor people who are former tenants of Buxton are still in the slums. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the title deeds, they have been transferred from the national Government to an individual developer called Buxton Point. When you find Pumwani people crying to the Senate, it is their last point. They cannot go to any other place to get justice. This issue of affordable housing is a scam. The reason I am saying it is a scam is that I will tell you today, how can you evict 560 people who have lived in Buxton Estate for over 50 years and invite a developer, a rich man to come and invest on that land and start collecting money from rich people? To start with, a person has to first pay Kshs1 million. How do you expect a poor man who has been evicted from that land to afford Kshs1 million? As we speak, Buxton Estate is going for Kshs3.8 million to Ksh5.6 million depending on the number of bedrooms. When you see people coming to the Senate, it is not to enjoy themselves. There is a problem in this country. The Government is talking about hustlers. How can we evict hustlers from where they have lived for 50 years and take them back to the slums? In support of---"
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