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"speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. You know Hon. Chepkut has a new profession. He is a rising star in the social media. He always writes very nice tweets. I read them and I think he is a rising star. So, that is another hat he is wearing. That notwithstanding, I would like to support this Bill and say that I proudly sat in this Committee as a member and I think we did a good job. This Bill has come at the right time to regulate this sector which is developing very fast, especially sectional properties. Presently, there are many apartments coming up for sale. More importantly, there are very many foreigners who are coming into this country to invest in properties. When you see people from other jurisdictions coming here to invest, then it is good that we lay good ground for them. They need to invest in a regulated area. That is why this Sectional Properties Bill is important. I remember one time I wanted to buy property. I did all the paper work only to realise later that the owners of the property did not have all the approvals. That was dangerous to anybody who had made payments towards that property. The County Government of Nairobi, probably, would have demolished the property without us knowing. Who allowed them to put up a huge structure of around 140 apartments? But there it was. When my lawyer asked to see the approval from the county government, he was told there was none. The reason given was that the area was not properly regulated. So, I think upon this law coming in place, we are going to have sanity in this area of property ownership. Kenyans have a lot of money. There are many cases that have been talked about concerning people who buy properties off plan. They make payments and one year after, they realise that the property they had paid for does not exist. There are many cases of Kenyans who actually pay for property of a certain design off plan. When it is completed, they go and check only to find that the rooms are probably 5 feet by 3 feet and yet they paid for 10 feet by 10 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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