Affordable housing programme will minimise land fragmentation - Ruto
President William Ruto said under the affordable housing program the government will construct 10,000 houses in Kisii County to minimize land fragmentation.
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00:00So this program that we have brought here is a program that we will build in Kisii.
00:06A house of 10,000 people.
00:08Here in Kisii County.
00:10For our first generation.
00:12And this building is because here in Kisii,
00:16the land of our land has been small.
00:19Or do you have a big land?
00:21The land has been small?
00:23Not one, two, three?
00:25Not two, not three?
00:28So we have said,
00:30the land that we have,
00:32we will use it to grow food,
00:35so that we don't have to go to Kenya.
00:38So we have said,
00:40we will do an affordable housing program.
00:42So that we can minimize
00:44land fragmentation
00:46that is threatening our food security.
00:48And because of this,
00:50this affordable housing program,
00:52I am starting here today,
00:54I will go back tomorrow,
00:56and I will say that
00:5810,000 housing units have been built
01:00in this county.
01:02So that we can say,
01:04young people are getting affordable housing,
01:06and we are saving our land,
01:08so we can use it to grow food.