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    "id": 960848,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/960848/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabondo Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Eve Obara",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13352,
        "legal_name": "Eve Akinyi Obara",
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    "content": "I, too, have a real-life experience of a block of apartments that were developed in Lavington with no parking spaces. It was a ridiculous case where even the parking space was supposed to be paid for by the purchaser of the apartment. Most of them lost their property. Even when your apartment did not have a tenant, you still had to pay for the parking lot. At the end of the day, the property developer ended up owning your property and taking you to court to pay for property that was initially yours. This Bill will create confidence in the property market with the issuance of what Kenyans generally consider as proper title deed. Another point I would like to raise is that, as we have observed over the years, there are so many apartments coming up. You sometimes wonder where the money is coming from. Many of them are vacant yet many more are still coming up across the country. So, the issue of vetting of developers is critical. I suspect that these are monies which were obtained through unlawful means and are now being cleaned by purchasing these properties. I, therefore, join my colleagues in supporting. I also note that, as a country, we will benefit from this Bill when revenue collection increases on rents and rates from these many apartments that are now in the hands of their owners. We now have an enabling environment that is giving property owners absolute right to their individual units and they can use them as they so wish. Once again, I support."
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