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    "id": 1367600,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "tax-free. I do not know the kind of calculation they are making. The Government gives public land for free to an individual who then builds property at a commercial price which is unaffordable. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Sen. Lomenen is my witness. He bought two apartments measuring 104 square metre in Great Wall at Ksh3.5 million each. He has documents, I am his witness. If you divide Kshs3.5 million by 104, you are getting that land at Kshs34,000 per square metre. After getting this land for free, why should the price go to Kshs90,000 per square metre? I do not know why. In that Committee, my view was that the Government has lost land to fraudsters in the name of developers. After 10 years, no land will be left for Kenyans to use because all the land that is supposed to be developed by the Government, will have been taken over by fraudsters pretending to be developers. My view in the Committee was the minority view. However, I thought that this matter should be subjected to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) because a fraud was castigated between the developer and Mombasa County Government. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you want to do any development in South C or Eastleigh today and you have the money, you can go to the landowner. The mathematics are very simple; the landowner will get 30 per cent of whatever is developed on that land. This is something that everybody knows. I can show this Government about 1,000 contracts that have been dealt with between a developer and the landowner. It is very simple. If you build 100 units, 30 units will go to the landowner. In the Buxton case, the developer gets 90 per cent and the landowner gets 10 per cent, simply because this land belongs to innocent Kenyans. It is not for an individual. If the President can hear me, he should stop all development purported as being affordable housing. There is nothing like ‘affordable.’ These are crooks, thieves and calculated moves of stealing from this country."
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