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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are forgetting the objective of this piece of legislation. The main object of this legislation is to give effect to the provision of the Constitution to access to decent housing to every Kenyan. We know legislation does not exist in a vacuum. If we legislate on affordable housing, we need to know how we will fund this project. That is why the Government proposed the 3 per cent levy. The Kenyans complained and the levy went down to 1.5. It is our honour. We are privileged as the Senate and Parliament to be the ones who oversee the creation of this law, the implementation of this law and the provision of affordable houses to Kenyans. I am surprised that Sen. Sifuna does not support this. If there is anybody who needs this affordable housing, it is Nairobians. The other day I went to a matanga in a slum---"
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