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    "id": 1305209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to support this Petition. From the onset, it looks like some the Members of this House have not read the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto. One of the cornerstones of President William Ruto’s administration is affordable housing. For the benefit and information of the House, the President just launched the handing over of Buxton Phase One in Mombasa a few moments ago. Madam Temporary Speaker, I agree that the people who are petitioners should be given priority in an occasion of Buxton Estate. The aim of affordable housing is to free agricultural land. It is very important that we go for affordable housing, so that we can free the land for agricultural purposes. I advise my colleagues, even on the Majority side, to read the manifesto of the President properly. They should understand the vision and the intention of affordable housing. I can permit the Minority side to criticize because their business is just to criticize for them to get political bonga points and mileage. Madam Temporary Speaker, in my native language, it is said that when you are chasing a gazelle and a squirrel appears, you do not stop to chase the gazelle because a squirrel has appeared. Affordable housing is here to stay with us. The appropriation has been made and what we have is teething problems. Since the Government has given developers public land, those houses should be cheaper. Nonetheless, affordable housing programme is a vision of the Government and the President. We should all support it. One of the basics of human rights that you and I know is that housing, shelter and food are very critical. There are so many Kenyans who have not gotten a chance to have decent housing in this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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