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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support this Vote. In so doing, I wish to commend the Minister for the good work he is doing. I know very well that this is not a very old Ministry. As person with background information about the Ministry when it was part of the former Ministry of Roads, Public Works and Housing, because of where I was working, I know that he is really trying. However, I have a few comments to make, the first one being about the Housing Policy. This is a document that has been going round and round but at the end of the day, it does not come out clearly for people to know what the plan is for housing in the whole country. If you are in Britain, you will find a comprehensive housing policy for the citizens. We need the Housing Policy document to be polished and show us whether the Government is able to provide housing or subsidised housing for the citizenry. That is a very critical thing because; even if you do not have food, you will probably have somewhere to sleep. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the second one is on the issue of slum upgrading. In this regard, I would think of the slum upgrading projects in Pumwani and Kibera and what happened. We are bringing down mud houses and putting up concrete five-floor flats and saying that we have upgraded a slum. Sooner or later, that becomes almost an up-market area, from which even those we upgrade slums for do not benefit. So, that kind of slum upgrading programme is a failure, because it should be able to benefit those people for whom it was intended. Once you upgrade one place, those people who are displaced go ahead and create other slums elsewhere. This means that you are failing, and that that housing scheme is actually benefitting those who should not benefit."
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