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    "id": 1373702,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "first point. It makes many of us believe that this Bill is not about housing. It is about politics. It is about short-term gains. It is about things that do not add any value to the people of Kenya in totality. I want to disclose here that I was one of the first Members of Parliament to submit a bid for affordable housing. There are indications that they are coming to do those affordable houses in my constituency. When I told my people on the ground in Funyula Constituency, they have mocked me for the last three weeks nonstop on how misguided, misdirected and mis- prioritising I am. That is the first issue we need to address. The Committee has talked eloquently about how they did public participation all over the country and that there was unanimity that this Bill is good. They have said they are going to move amendments. We want this to be the test case so that public participation should not just be for the sake of it. It should not be a farce or window-dressing. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have not had an opportunity to read the Report, but I would imagine that they have a matrix on what people said in each particular centre that public participation was done. How have they synthesised those comments and submissions? How they have arrived at whatever amendments they wished to make to this particular Bill so that we truly reflect the spirit of public participation? It is a waste of public funds for Members of Parliament to go all over the country for public participation, but come back and use some invincible force to overturn the will and expectation of the people of Kenya. It is unconstitutional, immoral, unfair, and abuse of the office that has been conferred upon us."
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