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    "id": 769478,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "devolved to the grassroots, many people who had no opportunities before to access resources can now access them through employment. Many senior members of staff in the counties now have opportunity to get mortgages and even tenderers bid to build either public or private houses. Buildings are coming up, which is very important, good and encouraging. I urge surveyors and architects who are responsible for buildings to ensure that no opportunity is allowed for unprofessional way of constructing buildings. It has become shameful. Houses are becoming a death row. They have been killing people every now and then because people are building and they want to rush and cash in on the tenants. They want to get as many tenants as possible and many tenants also cannot afford very expensive buildings to rent. So, sometimes landlords, especially in the densely populated areas like where Hon. Theuri comes from, Embakasi West, and other places in Nairobi, are in a rush to construct buildings. I do not know whether those buildings do not catch the eye of the professionals. Buildings are coming up which are not done properly and at the end of the day, they collapse even before they are completed. So, when this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, we urge the law enforcers to implement it. This country has never lacked laws. The problem is implementation and enforcement of the laws. So, we urge those who are responsible for this, for example, county governments and the national Government, especially the Ministries of Physical Planning and Lands, to enforce the law so that we do not loss lives. We should plan well. Even planning itself is very haphazard. Buildings are coming up in a very haphazard way. With those few remarks, I support the Bill. I urge the stakeholders to ensure that they implement the provisions of this law once it becomes an Act of Parliament. If the Bill is amended, they should make sure it is enforced with the full force of the law. Thank you."
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