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    "content": "properly together. For example, the people who are neighboring Kibera or Mathare slums always live in fear. How can we establish a system where we can have a good relationship between the people living in slum areas and other areas? I have already talked about the land tenure systems which needs to be corrected. Even the houses they live in are not secure. Some of them do not even have title deeds. They do not own anything. We need to secure all that to make sure that people living in slums take care of their interests and rights. There is competing land rights in slum areas. There are tenants, structure owners, and the land title deeds holders. You will find that there are so many people competing over so many interests. How can we ensure that, as a country, we take care of the interests of all these people? These are the issues being addressed by this Policy. The informal settlements are mostly located in fragile environmental areas which are prone to flooding and pollution from industries. This creates threat to security and safety of the residents. There is poor planning and inadequate implementation mechanism to protect environmentally-fragile protected areas in those slums. Most of the slums in this country are where the environment is very poor, and they are not properly managed. This policy will address all these factors. As per this Policy, the Government will undertake and suitably analyse to relocate slum dwellers in fragile areas to alternative settlements. When you have a slum where people have overcrowded and there is a lot of challenge, there must be a mechanism in place to relocate a certain number of people so that the slum population can be manageable. I believe this Policy is addressing all these factors. There is also poor planning and development management where a lot of issues happen within those areas. There is ineffective development control mechanism and lack of capacity to prepare and implement plans. This has contributed to mushrooming of many unplanned settlements. I believe that if we do not have proper mechanism and planning in place, then there are so many slums that are going to mushroom. In most of the counties or even in our cities, if we do not have a plan where we say; this is an urban area and this is where we should have a slum or industries; we are going to face a lot of challenges. I believe this is really important for us to consider. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the problem of urban slum development has been affected because there is no political goodwill. The leadership and politicians are not interested in developing slum areas. They will just consider what is important to urban areas. Even for development in the country, people look at areas like Kileleshwa, Lavington and the rest, but forget about the slums. However, when it comes to politics, the first focus will be slums because that is where they are going to get their votes. We need to stop this particular behavior. We need to consider all our citizens and improve their lives. There is the issue of shelter and housing. Most of the houses in those slums lack water, sanitation, lighting, and adequate ventilation. The people there live miserable lives which is sometimes dangerous. The use of standard building materials require frequent maintenance of the structures. In Kibera slums, you will find that people are building their houses using mud and timber. We need to control some of the materials that are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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