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    "id": 765024,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ndirangu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2701,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
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    "content": "One is land tenure. In Roysambu Constituency, we have many informal settlements. We have Marurui, Njathaini, Soweto and Kamae. We do not have title deeds in any of those slums. It makes it completely difficult for the land owners there to develop even their own housing. It is very important as we consider adopting this policy that the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development, together with the National Land Commission (NLC), urgently ensure that our informal settlement residents are issued with title deeds so that they can access loans and use those titles as collaterals in order for them to develop their residences. I want to emphasise that some of the problems we have in the informal settlements, like crime and poverty, are directly related to lack of collaterals like title deeds. It is very important that the NLC works together with the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development to ensure that we have title deeds. My other issue concerns preservation of public utility properties like school, playing fields and spaces for building hospitals. You realise that most of the public utilities that were set aside in the entire of Nairobi shortly after Independence and in the first two administrations have been grabbed right from Gikomba, Mwariro and Grogan. These problems have not spared my constituency. The establishment and development of Thika Superhighway displaced about 10,000 hawkers who have now converged in centres like Roysambu and Githurai. You will find that on any single day, there is a gridlock of traffic jams on those junctions. I am appealing to this department together with our Nairobi Governor to work hand in hand to make compulsory acquisition of land to establish markets in Githurai, Kahawa and Kiwanja. This goes hand in hand with creation of bus parks and spaces for recreation of our pupils. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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