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    "content": "In fact, we have attained 4 per cent allocation this year for the first time. The Kshs59 billion that the national Government has allocated to health is just 4 per cent of the budget. Time will come when your county will be forced to allocate 15 per cent of its budget to health, following the Abuja Declaration. That will happen through this Bill. That is how we will do it. How will we demand, like in Bombay in India, to have minimum standards of housing? Bombay is famous for its slum upgrading programme. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. they have gone through a framework process. In a famous case called Olga Tellis Case, people living in the pavements said that they should not be evicted and the Supreme Court upheld their argument that they cannot be evicted from the pavements where they were living because it was the obligation of the State to provide them with proper housing. I am looking forward to a day when Kibera will not be the Kibera we know today, because we have the resources. A Cabinet Secretary in this Republic will not take credit for building toilets or constructing drainage, because it is the inherent right of the person in Kibera to have a toilet; it is not a favour. Therefore, this Bill is important. Sen. Hassan has done justice to a right granted by the Constitution. It is inalienable and inherent in every child, but how do we enforce it? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Article 22 has given us the right to enforce it, but where is the policy framework? How will we challenge the national Government and county governments? That is why this Bill is critical. If there is one Bill that we should discuss as a matter of priority, it is this Bill. This is what Wanjiku has been looking for. She has not been looking for counties to have big cars or legal, political and all the advisors that they have. Wanjiku voted for this Constitution so that she can have what is in Article 43. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the reason is economic and social rights. Should a Kenyan be ostracized in the community because he does not have a decent house? By the time one has a decent house, you uplift their economic standard. We should move from the principle that everybody in Kenya lives below a dollar a day. This is what we call progress of the Constitution. Although the drafters of the Constitution never contemplated that there would be legislation, I thank Sen. Hassan for finding it wise, maybe his stint at the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC) and his interaction with some of these things, has been a forte. I support this Bill because I can see light at the end of the tunnel for the people who matter in this Republic; the people who vote for us, who are the most marginalized, who suffer the most, are overtaxed, suffer when we have corruption and who suffer when the rest of us are enjoying the fruits of Independence. The founders of this country lost their lives, their freedom, rights of having ostentation; living well so that a majority of Kenyans can have economic and social rights. I beg to second."
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