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"speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
"speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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"legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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"content": "THAT, due to lack of quality shelter, a majority of people live in areas with no access to clean water and sanitation, unreliable and unhealthy energy sources, leading to increased exposure to diseases; THAT, the cost of production is the biggest challenge affecting the supply of housing and that the current housing deficit stands at 2 million houses with nearly 61% of urban households living in slums; THAT, this deficit continues to rise due to fundamental constraints on both the demand and supply side and is exacerbated by an urbanisation rate of 4.2%, which is equivalent to 0.5 million new city dwellers every year; THAT, the principle of progressive realisation of socio-economic rights under the Constitution requires the Government to take deliberate, concrete and targeted steps towards the achievement of those rights; THAT, to realise affordable housing, the Government of Kenya has set housing as one of the four core agendas it intends to address, with a projection of 500,000 new housing units every year; THAT, New Build Construction Technology is a Kenyan construction invention developed by the Petitioner and patented under African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation on 9th August 2007 under Certificate of Grant of Patent No.AP 1765 awarded to New Build Ltd; THAT, the technology reduces the cost of production of houses by between 30 to 40% by employing the use of stones in the construction of the foundation, the floor slab and ring beams instead of the traditional cement, thereby reducing the cost of the foundation footing by 53.08%, the cost of the floor slab by 69.19% and the ring beams by 83.04%; THAT, the technology is applicable whether the underlying base is soil or rock as it relieves considerable amount of pressure on the base and remains stable under varying weather conditions; THAT, the application of the technology to only 25% of the Government’s target of 150,000 housing units in urban areas and to 60% of the 300,000 housing units in rural areas (estimated under Sessional Paper No.3) would save the country about Kshs54.3 billion per annum; THAT, the technology has been presented to the relevant authorities in the country, including the office of the President, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, the National Construction Authority and has not had any negative impacts on the critical economic activities; THAT, the technology has been approved by the Ministry and has been uploaded on the Ministry’s website and that training sessions on the application of the technology has been carried out to various industry players under the auspices of the National Construction Authority; THAT, the matters raised in this Petition are not pending before any court of law, constitutional or legal body; THEREFORE, your humble petitioner prays that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, considers the issues raised in this Petition on New Build Construction Technology with a view of making recommendations to the relevant Government agencies on the use of the said technology. And your PETITIONER will ever pray. Thank you. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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