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    "content": "towns by being narrow-mindedly tribal and acting in a manner that is inconsistent with any expectation of you as a leader. We will bring a Motion in this House to discuss the events of Eldoret Town and the behaviour of the governor whom – I take a bit of responsibility – we as the NASA campaigned for that young man to become a governor. He had been rejected and “Buzeki” was beating him hands down. Now he is turning on our people. I am not saying “our people” because they are Luhyas; but everybody in this country are our people. Whether Maasai, Somali, Luhya, Luo, Kikuyu, Kisii, name it, everybody has a right in this country. Back to the debate, to do the so-called slum upgrading, you need phenomenal sums of money. Apart from polemics in this paper, there is hardly any costing. What would be the cost of eradicating Kibera and giving people a decent life and what would be the cost of eradication Mathare and giving the people of Mathare a new life? Nobody expects that we can eliminate slums overnight or in one single term. The Chinese say “a journey of a thousand kilometres starts with one step” and if we are determined, we can get there. I would have expected this paper to tell us if we were to allocate 10 or 15 per cent of our GDP on slum elimination and control any growth of new slums, in 10 years there would be no slums in Kenya and that would be admirable. Otherwise, we will continue to glorify efforts that add up to nothing. Everywhere you go, there is a Kambi Somali, Kisumu Ndogo and what have you. All these are but acronyms for slums. Madam Temporary Speaker, I used to go to northern Kenya in my formative years to defend my clients. Recently, during campaigns, when we flew over northern Kenya for various rallies, there were sprawling slums in Mandera, Garissa and Marsabit. We have reached a stage we also need to have planned cities like the plan for Konza City that was supposed to be developed as an ICT centre to replicate the Silicon Valley in the US or Chennai in India. It is now but a bad dream because it is located in the wrong place of this country; it is not located in a place which is user-friendly to the Jubilee regime. They also found a willing accomplice in a character called Alfred Mutua who put up with spending public funds on Machakos Mega City. That is nothing but all fraud. Nobody holds him to account as to how much money he used. The President should be embarrassed to have been duped by Alfred Mutua to go and launch a fictitious and non- existent city called Machakos. Today, Konza is dead and the purpose for which Machakos City was launched was to kill Konza. So they succeeded and there is no Machakos city. So, there is deception in every direction. At the end of the day, we stand up and give very fictitious and fraudulent growth figures. I am waiting to see my friend Henry Rotich come to Parliament soon, carrying the proverbial briefcase full of fake growth figures telling us how high we grew, how inflation has been arrested and how this and that has been done but we want answers to serious questions. Where is the first step to eliminating slums? We stand collectively indicted for the continuing growth of Mukuru Kayaba, Mukuru kwa Njenga, Kangemi and other slums. The reason is because of criminal landlords. It has started in Nairobi that every two weeks there is a fire. Those fires are not 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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