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    "speaker_name": "Mr. I. Muoki",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Mulatya Muoki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I am responding on behalf of the Departmental Committee. We have had an opportunity to interact with the Minister and his staff. Therefore, we do not have many comments to make, but I would like to highlight a few things. From the outset, I would like to say that I support the Vote of the Ministry of Housing and make the following observations: One of the key concerns of the Ministry is to provide decent housing to all Kenyans. I think that has been a challenge, so far. I think it is not all Kenyans who have decent houses and not all Kenyans can afford decent housing, especially in towns. One of the issues I would like to raise with the Ministry is that of slums. If you look around the country, in major towns, starting with Nairobi and other towns, you will find that the mushrooming of slums has been on the increase because many Kenyans cannot afford to rent decent houses. This has been a major concern in the country. While the Minister is talking about the slum upgrading programme, I would like to say that this programme has not been successful. I would like to put the following issues across. One, the process has been very slow such that whatever was supposed to be achieved has not been achieved. If you delay a project, you delay your plans and you do not achieve anything. Secondly, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, even if the houses are completed, you will find that they are not given to the slum dwellers. If you start a slum upgrading programme in Kibera, the people there may move to other areas and start to develop other slums because they cannot afford those houses. The houses will end up being occupied by other Kenyans. We really need to address the issue of slums properly. We need to"
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