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    "id": 777287,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I arise to make my contribution to this Policy Paper on the Slum Upgrading and Prevention Policy. The reason why we are here is to support devolution. I have looked at the overall policy objective of this Sessional paper. I support it. However, there are questions that we ought to be asking ourselves on why we have these problems. I would also argue that this Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2016 is quite old. We may be debating it now for various reasons, but the best way to stop the influx of rural-urban migration is by fighting for the increase of the allocation that our counties receive so that we are able to stop a lot of people migrating to the city. With the gap between the rich and the poor in this country widening on a daily basis, there is no way we are going to stop people from boarding buses with one-way tickets coming to settle in Nairobi. Slums are sprouting on a daily basis. Even if it were me, I would ask myself the same question of why there is free land somewhere yet I have nowhere to live. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the thing that we ought to be talking about is, how do we stop the rural-urban migration? Many people come to the city believing that, that is where they will get jobs to support their people in the rural areas. The reason why we fought so hard for a Devolved Government System was so that we are able to curb the growth of slums in this country. One of the things that we might do in line with this Policy Paper is to try and promote subsidised housing and giving tax incentives that can help us, as a country, to reach the overall objective of this paper. In the United States of America (USA) where I lived, there were slums but they had a much better name and called them “projects”. The government there tends to recognise the needs of poor people to have better housing. If this policy is not implemented, it will be a big waste and an insult to the poor people. The reason why this policy paper was thought out in the first place was to give poor people who cannot afford to pay high rents in Nairobi or stay at home without a job a way for them to have a good life. In this country, everyone wants to come to Nairobi. 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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