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    "id": 775989,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/775989/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
        "slug": "jimmy-angwenyi"
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    "content": "When we construct 500,000 houses in this country, they should be distributed to various counties. There are areas like Kisii Town, which have no adequate housing for its people. You find a single room house being rented for Kshs20,000 in Kisii, not in Nairobi. You find an acre of land going for Kshs10 million in Kisii. The first thing is to find out where the land is, purchase it and make it available for construction of houses then identify the people who will occupy the houses. Let us start first with the people who are working. On tenancy purchase programme, we can extend it to people whose income is not guaranteed, namely, people who are doing businesses. We can then stretch it down to people who do not have any jobs so that we can provide housing for them. This country is very rich, but we mess up our resources through corruption and favouritism. Therefore, we do not serve our people the way we should. This Parliament can rise up and make sure that corruption and favouritism is tackled to the roots. If you find me favouring my son, my daughter, my relative or my community, I should be punished. That is what has happened in countries which have moved from Third World to First World status. I still count countries like Singapore, Malaysia, China and Brazil. If we tackle those two elements seriously, we can develop. If we also give technical skills to our youth, they can be employed to construct the houses. We should allocate more funds to the National Youth Service and ask them to impart appropriate skills for our youth so that they can be employed in the construction sector. I recently visited a policeman friend of mine who stays in one room with two other policemen. All of them have families. So, they have subdivided that room using curtains. Just The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}