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    "id": 241944,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/241944/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shitanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 207,
        "legal_name": "Peter Soita Shitanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, July 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2187 Sir. The Civil Servants Housing Scheme is developing guidelines and regulations to enable civil servants acquire houses not just in Nairobi, but in all towns of Kenya, and even in the rural areas. The housing scheme is being developed alongside the Scheme for Members of Parliament and the staff of the National Assembly. We intend to give loans to civil servants, maybe, at an interest rate of not more than 5 per cent, so that they can own homes. A lot has been said about slums. This is one of the major challenges that my Ministry is facing. As I speak here today, 60 per cent of the residents of Nairobi live in slum areas. While the National Housing Policy has tried to address the problem of slums, we have had major challenges in trying to combat it. The major challenge has not been the slum dwellers, but the slum developers. There are some people who were allocated Government land or who grabbed it and developed slums on it without providing services like roads, water, electricity and toilets. As a Ministry, we have been trying to come up with programmes to upgrade those slums, but we have had a lot of resistance, not from the slum dwellers but from the developers. Those people who are very rich have become a big problem to the control of slums in this country."
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