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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to second the Motion on the Vote of the Ministry of Housing. Let me, first of all, take this early opportunity to thank the Minister, his PS and the staff of the Ministry for a job well done since the Minister was appointed to that Ministry. We have seen rapid development of housing, particularly for civil servants. This is something that we need to commend the Minister. Before the Minister moved to that Ministry, it was the Government’s plan to house civil servants. It used to be very ridiculous that a civil servant would work for 25 to 30 years and once he retires, he would be forced to move out of the house he was staying in to a slum area because that was the only place he could afford to stay. With the new policy of giving mortgage loans to civil servants to own their own houses is a very commendable plan. We must commend the Minister for this. This policy has been static but it needs to be accelerated so that it will be our policy, that every civil servant owns his or her own house so that by the time they retire, they have something to hand over to their children. This would be a very good investment. I noticed that most of the programmes are in the urban areas. My request to the Minister is that they should spread this scheme to the rural areas so that the civil servants in those areas can benefit. The houses need not be very expensive and not also very big. However, it is important that when a civil servant retires, they have a house to retire to. They do not have to move from the house they have been staying. They do not have to move from the place where their spouses and children are used to. It is on record that many marriages used to go down the drain when a civil servant retired and he was told that the only place he could afford to live was in the slum areas. I am told that many spouses would refuse to accompany their husbands to those areas. This used to have an effect on marriages. The landlord and tenant law is housed by this Ministry. There are complaints that whenever a dispute is referred to the Tribunal, it takes too long to be determined. As a result, this encourages landlords and tenants not to refer issues to the Tribunal. I would"
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