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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "We are talking of diseases which are coming up every time. If there is a cholera outbreak in Runda, maybe it will affect the family or few individuals. But if there is a cholera outbreak in Mathare, it will sweep the entire slum. These are the things which need to be addressed by this Sessional Paper. It has put them in place. It is now the task of the Government to implement the same. On affordability of houses, we are talking of everybody getting a house. Let us get not only a good clean house with all the amenities but also affordable. These things are there. We have people who have been employed in this city and many other cities and they cannot afford accommodation because of the high cost of living. I happen to have gone to Singapore and I found that every institution which employs people has their houses next to the institution. If it is parliament, parliamentarians are housed in an estate somewhere they can walk to parliament and that is catered for by the Government. There are people who are employed in industries; Export Processing Zone areas. You will find that people scramble to look for accommodation. If that industry invests in putting up houses for its employees, it will be cheaper and it will be convenient. Employees can always walk to their places of work. This is already catered for in this Sessional Paper. If we do that, we will get rid of houses which are put up by incompetent architects. We will eliminate poor structures which are weak and are collapsing in estates, killing people and causing mayhem. We need proper houses which are properly constructed with the correct workmanship so that we can at least stop all these accidents by collapsing buildings. After all this is said and done, we need to set aside finances and also have a programme to continue to put up buildings. The Government will need to budget for these houses annually. That is so that the process continues every year. Let us not congest these houses in our cities, towns or urban areas. Let us go into the rural areas. Let us put electricity in the rural areas and we shall develop the countryside. The other day we passed Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2017 on the National Policy on Climate Finance. I spoke to the same and said let it not be water under the bridge. Let it not be put under the carpet. Once we pass these documents, they should go to the right ministry for proper budgeting and planning. We can adopt all these papers and keep them in the Table Office or offices, but if we do not implement programmes, it will be an effort in futility. I do not think that is the spirit. The spirit is to actualise what we pass here. I strongly believe that the Ministry in charge of housing will take up the matter and implement what has been suggested. Once the Sessional Paper sees the light of the day, we shall say that we did a good job and it has been appreciated by the citizens of this country. 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."
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