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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": " I was waiting for the Member for Kilifi to finish making noise so that I can continue. New Clause 42B clearly puts it that a purchaser shall not sell the house except with the prior written consent of the board. Hon. Chepkonga has put it very well that until you become the owner of the house upon completion of payment, you co-own that house together with the board. This is because the board owns the house that it is selling to you. Therefore, you cannot transfer without the consent of the other person who co- owns that house with you. Secondly, they say; ‘‘if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.’’ During the Second Reading of this Bill, we were here when many of these people who are now opposing this particular clause were telling us that this Bill is designed to make sure people with means will buy all these houses using proxies and then transfer the houses back to themselves. The Senate listened to you and amended this Bill to ensure that those with cartel tendencies will not use this Bill to use proxies to buy houses, and then soon after transfer them to themselves. You will only be able to transfer the affordable house to a third party upon attaining what Hon. Caroli Omondi referred to as absolute ownership. That is where Hon. Irene Mayaka should have listened to what she is referring to as semantics. What Hon. Chepkonga was telling you about the difference between the purchaser and the owner are not semantics. The English Oxford Dictionary has a different definition of who a purchaser is. A purchaser is somebody who buys while an owner is somebody who owns the house. You do not own the house until you finish the process of purchase. When you are a purchaser for value, you shall not be allowed to transfer without the consent of the board. This is to avoid the cartels that were already getting ready to buy and then sell using proxies, including their drivers or house girls. They will be ashamed that the house girls, mama mboga, and even touts will be able to own houses."
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