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    "id": 1392347,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, the tragedy that has been the Affordable Housing Bill continues. It went to the Senate and we thought that the Senate will have the temerity and courage to cure the mess, but they have only amplified it. We find ourselves in a more terrible mess than we were in before the Bill left this House. I want to echo the sentiments raised by the Leader of the Majority Party on the issue of a bicameral approach to the preparation of Bills. We wish the same spirit could also be amplified in the National Assembly. Even though some of the amendments to the Bill were improperly presented, they were raised during the Committee of the whole House, but they could not be considered because of our partisan nature of doing things. They have now gone to the Senate and they have been mutilated. I want to mention a very fundamental mistake that has occurred. The word “agency” was defined as an institution allocated monies for affordable housing in the original Bill that was passed here. The NCA has no mandate to implement affordable housing. It is a regulator and a supervisory body. I do not know how you will cure that fatality. I would not imagine that anybody who has attended a housing policy lecture would have allowed this kind of mess. As I conclude, I want to tell my neighbour, Hon. Mary Emaase, that on matters of housing policy, we are very careful about how we define categories of housing ownership, and what constitutes affordable housing or low-income housing. It has no reference at all to a person’s income because income is not static; it is ever changing."
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