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    "id": 834449,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834449/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 190,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13362,
        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "When I was in Mombasa, I saw a wonderful hotel and part of it was on the ocean. Can that qualify to be riparian land which is being misused? If you go to London, houses are built on rivers, even near River Thames. This kind of thing goes on in many other countries. Are we not developed enough to use land which is near rivers and protect them as well? These are the kinds of questions we need to address instead of discouraging the building industry by pulling down beautiful houses. Officers who issue certificates and tell people to build are very senior Government officers. They give you the go ahead to construct, but another Government officer comes later and says that the building must be demolished. Who are we going to believe? What authorisation will we trust, if we cannot rely on what Government officers give us? We need to take some very drastic action and define a river in relation to a stream, so that in Nairobi City, we can know when and where one can build a house. If we do not do this, we are killing people’s initiatives. When you want to calculate the Gross Domestic Product of your country, the building industry plays a very important role. So, if we are going to interfere with it to this extent, this country will go down in development and not progress towards the desired goal."
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