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    "id": 1385587,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this God- sent Bill before the House. This is long overdue; we should not waste a lot of time because Kenyans and young people, including the people of Nandi County, and I, have just interacted a few minutes ago. They are yearning for this wonderful programme. It is sad that the people who are crying the loudest are the ones who need these houses. We need to give dignity to Kenyans in slums and when the courts ruled that we must have legislation, it was important. I am happy this Bill has ensured that the county government has a role to play and the Senate, being protectors of devolution, we now has a role in the affordable housing programme. The third point is on the issue of the wording of the Bill. I agree that it should be called the Rural-Urban Affordable Housing Programme, so that people in Chepalungu and Kapleralaket and even Kaptengelei and other areas of this Republic be involved in the projects. The programme of affordable housing is important for this country. I do not see why we should fight over it. Today, as we talk, the Homa Bay County Affordable Housing Programme is ongoing and yet it is an ODM zone. In Kisumu, the programme is ongoing, yet the Governor and the other members are from ODM. Even here in Nairobi, the programme is ongoing. I have seen most of my colleagues from the Minority side making the loudest noise in matangas, funerals, baby showers and bridal showers, telling Kenyans that they have numbers. Apparently, they have telephone numbers only, but they do not have numbers to object to this God-sent Bill. I agree that all these issues that the courts have raised, we have captured and the aspect of affordable housing was there. You even heard the opponent of President William Ruto in the last election agreeing that this issue of affordable housing was part of the cornerstone. The issue is about interest; it is not even about the law-making process. The stakeholders were satisfied; I remember and you know Parliament has been defined to be one under Article 93 of the Constitution of Kenya. When the National Assembly Housing Committee moved around the country conducting public participation. They went to Turkana, Kisumu and other parts of the country. I can assure you that more than four to six million Kenyans do not have dignified housing in this country."
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