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"speaker_name": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo (",
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"content": "Masinga, WDM-K): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the chance you have given me to air my views on this Bill. First of all, I would like to thank the Committee for a well-researched and timely Bill. In Kenya because of devolved units, everybody, even in the rural areas, wants to invest in apartments. Therefore, the Bill will help people in rural areas to own their apartments. We need first to vote for it and make it law, then we save our people. The only affordable houses are apartments. The middle class and young people, who have finished university and have just been employed, can afford them. They feel honoured to own something at that age. To own an apartment means you have a title deed and can do whatever you want with it. You can sell it or use it to take a loan. As it is now, it is an area that is being exploited by developers. The other day I saw in Athi River a block of 100 apartments on auction simply because the developer did not clear with the bank. Two weeks ago, they advertised the Sunset Boulevard Apartments in newspapers to be sold, including apartments that have already been bought but later it was stopped by a court. This is not a good practice. It can give someone a heart attack having spent all their salary or earnings to purchase the houses only to be told to move out. Therefore, this Bill will save many families a lot of agony because of what we are doing in the House. The House being a saviour of many parts of the country, institutions and private properties, I know we are going to move with speed pass this Bill. It will create confidence in the minds of people when they own a property wholly. It is a good move. I support it because if we are not careful, this country might have many cases in courts than we have at the moment. The Chinese have come to develop skyscrapers here in Ngara and have started selling them off plan. That means that one buys them by faith because one does not know what they are going to own. Even today they were advertised in the papers. They are selling the ones at Athi River through an off plan at Kshs2.9 million. That means that 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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