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    "id": 974936,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974936/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Kegeo Ongeri",
        "slug": "samson-ongeri"
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    "content": "If you notice, in the kind of planning there is in Kenya today, people scramble for the first line plots because they are expected to have value. When we came up with a sustainable policy for land use in this country, it was meant to do what is called spatial planning. Particularly, in the developing urban centres, towns and cities, you need to do spatial planning. When you do spatial planning, you increase the value of land; whether it will be the first, second, or third row because that kind of spatial planning has the effect of increasing the services available for those who want to use land. You can maximize land use, instead of leaving people to congregate in one frontline and creating the slums that are now sprawling all over the place. If we are not careful, we may become so inefficient that instead of developing towns and urban centers, we will be developing slums. Slums do not create capital, revenue or anything. If anything else they become a menace because of the health hazards and congestion in those slums that are not able to help anybody to survive in a very competitive economic world."
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