Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: residential or commercial units, until a sectional plan that includes those premises that is registered at a registry. Essentially, it means that if you have a building where already there are tenants who are not party to a purchase agreement and they are not in the sectional plan, the owner cannot sell those premises. I think this clause is intended to protect existing arrangements outside sectional properties regime. view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, also the proposed Clause 59 deals with the Cabinet Secretary being given the power to make regulations. To me, that is progressive. That does not mean this Bill is perfect. I invite my colleagues to give ideas on how to improve on it, particularly, based on their personal experiences in sectional properties regime. view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: Personally, I have an office and I have seen the problems those of us who are in that building are facing. One is the issue of slow conveyancing process. You buy a property today and it takes almost three years for you to be able to have your interest registered in the lands registry. view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: Maybe we need to add in the clause, timelines within which an owner should convey a sectional property to a tenant. I have been in that building for almost two years and the proprietor has never found it useful to give my sectional property. I do not know the reason but I am trying to imagine several Senators may have experienced the same problem and, therefore, we may need to add a provision here establishing timelines. If they can do that to a lawyer, I would imagine how they are oppressing the common view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: There are reasons they may not be in a hurry to register. This is because once you become a registered owner and then you have some rights, you can enforce them. My agreement with the proprietor strictly speaking, has technical problems because there is breach of agreement. view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: One of the areas we can improve this law is to enact timelines within which a security should be perfected under the Sectional Properties Act. Secondly, is to perfect the rights of tenants for shared facilities. There are usually shared facilities in a sectional property. We have the lift, kitchen and toilets. Often, one will find that there are conflicts. It is not even clear who one complains to. The company, which the corporation registered under this entity often, does not have an office within the premises. There are no full disclosures as to who the directors of that company ... view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: now one of the most expensive addresses for a good reason and we need to celebrate that on one hand. Of course, there are demerits in the sense that high rental charges may push out more and more people into the informal sector. On the other hand, it may show a vibrant property market. This Bill is one of the catalysts to that good property market. Take for example, addresses such as Upper Hill, the Central Business District CBD), Westlands and Kilimani. We need to encourage our people to own properties vertically. If you go to a place such as ... view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: All these infrastructural programs will continue making Nairobi more and more modern. More and more people will flock to Nairobi. The more they do so, the more we do not want them to go to low income regions. We want them to go to formal areas and stay in high-rise buildings. We want to educate our people not to think that once they get little money, they should go looking for small land and put up small houses. They should instead own an apartment. That way, their cost goes down. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you were to go to Kamulu, ... view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me first take this opportunity to thank my colleagues who have contributed to this Bill. I thank every contributor. I took notes and heard you very well, loud and clear. I wish to thank my colleague who seconded this Bill. There are areas that we may need to improve on. We will get that opportunity once we go to the Third Reading. We will make those appropriate amendments. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy, as colleagues have said, that Kenyans may now start embracing this Bill. The phenomenon of owning property in strata or ... view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: Some of these zoning practices are no longer tenable under a new urbanized society that we are living. I gave an example and reiterate it. Take like Kilimani which has always been zoned as a place for residential dwelling for single purpose. However, with the current drift where the Government wants to encourage more people to live in apartments, it is the rational use of squeezed land in urban areas. We need to undo those zoning policies. Madam Temporary Speaker, of course, the Nairobi City County Government has a major role in zoning. Therefore, maybe that should be addressed at ... view