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    "content": "not mean that they have negative impact to the society. I suggest that even as we adopt this Sessional Paper, let us look at conclusive measures in the end that will ensure slums will not be there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just remembered that we had the slum upgrade programme but what worries me is that even when you are looking at slum upgrade, it is usually not conclusive. There is a section of Majengo slums that was upgraded and the project did not continue. It was just a pocket of it. It is the same case with Kibera slums. So, there is also need to push on and be highly objective in this Sessional Paper. We need to insist that if there is going to be slum upgrade, then it should be continuous. It should be followed up until there is elimination of slums in all forms, as stipulated in SDG No.1; that we want to ensure it goes through. That is, eliminating all forms of poverty. I support this Sessional Paper with the various reasons that I have given. I also support it hoping that it will just be a temporary measure but we will have a visionary measure that will help eliminate all forms of slums in all our counties and especially in Nairobi City County. This is because the other counties that are saying that slums are coming up, it is just a pocket of slums. They have not experienced what is happening in Kibera, Kawangware and Majengo slums. We should try to ensure that we upgrade all these areas so that we do not have slums at all. This way, we will not have people come from far to take pictures in Kibera and Kawangware slums and say: “We have a project that we are supporting”, and use pictures of the residents of these areas. It is an abuse of people’s rights when people pretend that they are supporting the less fortunate and yet they are using them as a rubberstamp to enrich themselves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you, for giving me an opportunity. I support this Motion with the conditions that I have given. Thank you."
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