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    "id": 1378049,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I rise to support this amendment. As it has been said by the Chairperson, it now brings into the fold the institutional housing. Since I had prosecuted the case for institutional housing, I would only have wished the Departmental Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and Public Works and the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning considered something to do with job creation in the long title. This Bill is not only talking about affordable institutional and social housing, but also job creation. How I wish the Chairperson and the Committee were ingenious to bring in the question of wealth creation, the creation of new homeowners, and the value addition that will come with manufacturing of inputs into the housing projects in the long title. Be that as it may, more important is the agenda of job creation. As I said, this Bill to me and to many of these people here, especially these Members of the Kenya Kwanza Coalition… We feel the burden of millions of young people who have no jobs. This Bill is about jobs. May I re-emphasise this Bill has a lot to do with jobs and creation of employment. I want to congratulate the Hon. John Mbadi, Hon. Elisha Odhiambo, Hon. CNN and Member for Funyula, who withstood the intimidation that they had to go through not to be here to stand with the people of Kenya and their constituents who are languishing in poverty because they have no jobs. Hon. Prof Nyikal moved amendments that touch on this Bill because this is what legislators should be doing. It is better to be here to legislate than run away like cowards. I thank the Chairperson. I support."
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