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    "id": 1291621,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "No, I do not want to substantiate again. Before you know it, Eldoret will become a town of slums instead of being a planned city. The only way to stop Eldoret from becoming a town of slums, let us bestow to it city status now, so that the fathers of the city can start planning for the future to avoid a slum. Eldoret could be the only city in this country that will not have slums. There will be room to plan. Slums come because there is no land and people want to stay near the city, so they keep on crowding in one place. However, people can plan if there is enough space, like we have in Eldoret. Secondly, if we give Eldoret city status today, it can change and make a paradigm shift on the land tenure policy in this country. The land tenure policy where everybody fights to have a quarter of an acre in Kakamega or an eighth of an acre in Vihiga can only change if we change the land tenure policy, so that only people with probably 10 or 100 acres of land are the ones who are allowed to have farmland, but for the rest, we now develop housing so that those people can come to towns. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support Eldoret, we should also realize that there is an opportunityfor tourism in Eldoret. Eldoret is referred to by the locals as the ‘home of champions.’ I have just been having a tete-a-tete with the distinguished Senator for Kisii on what would stop the fathers of that city in planning for athletic villages. Public partnership; investors will come, put up those villages and we will have state-of-the-art stadia for squash, table tennis, soccer and, of course, athletics which they love best. We have to be futuristic if we are going to give alternative ways of creating employment for our youth. Today, if you were to ask the Senator for Migori, he will tell you that he had already started planning for his first-born son even before he married the mother or even before the mother conceived him. Go ahead and plan; it is good planning. If you were to ask him what he would want that hypothetical son of his to have--- You are not too different from Sen. M. Kajwang’, whose son is a toothless boy and he thinks he can start threatening people. A toothless child and inexistent child are very close. Mr. Speaker, sir, if you were to ask him, he will tell you that he wants his child to either be an economist or he wants his son ---"
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