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    "id": 1373653,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1373653/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
    },
    "content": "Two, this housing programme is important because it helps stimulate the construction industry in this country. We need to ensure that the housing industry supports jobs. My friend, Hon. Mbui, we are not looking at mijengo jobs. The housing industry starts with steel, cement and goes all the way to timber. It is not mjengo jobs of two or three days; it is a whole industry. That is why one thing that we, as Members of Parliament, must do is to ensure that the affordable housing fund is able to give rise to industries that will come because of the housing sector boom. I say this because eight years ago, we spent half a trillion shillings to build a railway line without a single town, a single industry and a single city being built in the wake of half a trillion shillings. When we were building the railway line, we were importing cement. We even imported sand because we allowed the Chinese to bring in prefabricated rolling stock. We allowed the Chinese to bring bolts and nuts. We allowed the Chinese to bring everything. So, I want to request those who will be in charge of implementing the housing fund to ensure that the procurement is done right. Personally, I have had an issue with the way we have gone in implementing the housing scheme so far, because we want to have the jua kali sector benefitting from the housing scheme. We want to have our own industries benefiting from this scheme. We cannot go to launch a housing scheme in Homa Bay yet we have not prepared the"
}