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    "content": "factories being constructed are 20 kilometres apart, meaning that there is no planning. Anybody with money can wake up and decide that they want to put a factory on their land. It never happened that way and does not happen that way in organized countries. If you put up a factory in the middle of a farmland, the workers in that factory must have a place to stay, hospital, school and recreational areas. By the time all that is provided the farm that can produce enough food to feed 100,000people per annum is gone. In urban centers we have designated areas for factories. What do we need to do? When you want to set up facilities like those in many countries except Kenya--- If you walk into Tanzania today with USD5 million to set up a factory and go to the department of industrialization, they will give you free space to put up the factory and grow the economy. It is only in Kenya where land is now a preserve for the privileged speculators. That is why we keep reading everyday that Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda are now more popular destinations for investors than Kenya. When you come to Kenya and want an acre of land in industrial area, you are told to pay Kshs450 million, which is USD4.5million. That is about half the cost if the factory that you want to build, yet when you walk to Tanzania you will be given a free one acre where you will build your factory. If you need labour from Kenya, within the protocol of the East African Community, you will have them just walk across the border and give you the engineering and accountancy works you want. They will give you everything else you want. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to relook at how we manage our land policy. We will not grow if land is for speculators. We are creating false and fraudulent millionaires, who just grab public land, sell it and become multimillionaires overnight. In the old days you never saw anybody who had land touching the road like we see today, Anybody with land touching on the road wakes up in the morning and builds a shop or whatever he wants and starts demanding the public to give him electricity. The public sends electricity to somebody’s shop which is five kilometers away from the grid. When you give him electricity the next day he demands security and water. You are serving an individual who could have put that shop in an urban centre where shared amenities are cheaper to provide. That is why we used to have - and why we have in English - shopping centers. They are called neighborhood shopping centers or shopping malls. But in this country, anybody with a property touching on the road says that hii ni shamba yangu . So what? For the orderly management of a society, we must rein in this. As I drive to Western and other parts of the country, you find small towns growing into slums. This is happening even in my own headquarters called Chwele, the second largest commodity exchange market in this region with huge amounts of cereals and so on. There is no planning, roads or even water. About five years ago, a small boy aged eight years went to relieve himself in a pit latrine. The latrine had been there for about 20 years, the slab was gone but nobody knew. It sank with him. By the time we got the wazima moto from Webuye, the boy had sunk into the sludge and we pulled out a dead person just because of poor planning. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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