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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mabonga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion on the Sessional Paper No.3 of 2016 on the National Housing Policy. I have been looking at it and even listening to the discussions from my colleagues. We all understand that this is a provision in the Constitution as laid down in Article 43 as cited by many of us. This is the foundation of life. As this country thinks of good roads and even as Members of Parliament, I think most importantly is that we have a lot of personnel in this country who are not giving their best because where they are sleeping is a problem. I tend to agree with my senior who has just mentioned something which I was going to mention. I want to emphasise on that, particularly security men. We have had many budgets employing more security men. I challenge my colleagues to have some time and visit their friends and colleagues who are staying in camps. The slums we see around here may even be better than those camps. A Member talked of a curtain partitioning a room, but I can assure you that some of them are using even polythene papers. So, it is important to map up the entire problem of housing, get to know the real costs of what is required and then move with speed to implement. It is true we have quite a number of nice policy papers lying on our shelves and private developers are taking advantage of that. As a House, we need to come up with proper legislation to ensure that people who are doing this, especially private developers, are doing a good job. However, the Government should monitor everything they are doing. Secondly, somebody talked of a mindset. Everything we do is right in our minds. It is generated from our minds. How many people are being transported from home to urban areas looking for employment? Thereafter, some houses have already been constructed. But you see a slum coming up just in the neighbourhood. It is not in the urban areas only. If you go to the rural areas and our villages, as wakili has just put it, even in my village, you will realise that we have quite a number of slums yet we do not have power over it. The wananchi believe that the Member of Parliament has a solution for everything. Is there a way we can sit down as a House and come up with a proposal so that we are able to respond to this problem that is affecting many Kenyans? This being a basic thing, we also need to treat it with the urgency it deserves. I rise to support, thanks for giving me an opportunity."
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