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    "content": "Then I told them: “We Kenyans keep on producing sons and daughters and telling them that Kenya is a balloon which will expand as we give it more people to create more land.” It will never happen! This country and we, as leaders, must think of a day when we shall have no more land for everybody! Can we think of that day, 50 years from today? How many people shall we have in this country? How much land will be available to all those people? Kenya is not a balloon! So, we must come up with a way of addressing that problem where every Kenyan has a right to housing and he or she should own a house, but not land. You do not have to live a decent life only through owning a piece of land. It is not necessary! Is that the way Americans, Europeans, Asians or the Japanese live today? Almost each and every one of them has a very good house and live a decent living, but not all of them own land. All of us who own land have awkward houses all over the place with very poor crops on that land that we claim we own. So, we have a sustained food insecurity and poor housing and yet, everybody wants land! So, the Government must come up with a policy to address that problem before it blows out of proportion. Not each and every Kenyan will be able to own land. I do not think we have that policy here, but it is coming. It is just a few years ahead of us. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have talked about buildings in this country. All those who acquire land or who have land have one ambition. Their ambition is to have a concrete building on it. That reduces the amount of land that can be used for the production of food. Arable land is all over the place but, instead of limiting the concrete buildings in towns and cities, we have erected them on arable land and thus, reducing the amount of land that we can use to produce food for ourselves. We reduce the amount of land which we can use to herd our livestock and, therefore, we end up reducing the amount of food for the whole country! If we could have a way out of that, we shall have solved a lot of problems for Kenya in future."
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