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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologise for mis-spelling the name of the gracious lady. I said that the problems of the slums are problems that have been with us for 40 years due to the lopsided development in the country between the rural and the urban areas. We have obviously had an influx of people from the rural areas into urban centres at an alarming rate. This is an issue that should not be handled by the Ministry of Local Government alone, but by all of us. We should make sure that there are programmes in the agricultural sector to keep people in the rural areas. That is one way through which we can lower the influx of people into the cities and urban areas and manage the slums. However, programmes are now underway to upgrade the slums. Already, in Kibera slums, the slum upgrading programme has taken off and the Minister for Housing, if he was here, could confirm that the ground breaking has been done. So, we will April 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 559 improve the standard of living for the slum dwellers."
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