Kisumu to have 1800 affordable houses at Makasembo Estate
By Dickson Odhiambo
May 19, 2022
Kisumu to have 1800
affordable houses at Makasembo Estate
AN estimated 1800 affordable houses will be available in
Kisumu at Makasembo Estate near the Kisumu National Polytechnic.
Local Authorities Provident Fund {Lapfund} Board of
Directors Chairperson Celestine Kailuku says the project being done through the
Lapfund in collaboration with the County Government of Kisumu will see 650
houses in its first phase.
Addressing guests and residents of Kisumu during the ground
breaking ceremony presided over by Former Prime Minister and the Azimio la
Umoja One Kenya Alliance Coalition Presidential flag bearer Raila Odinga,
Kailuku said the project will finally realize 1,800 modern affordable houses
within the said estate.
Kailuku says the Makasembo Estate in Kisumu used to have 130
houses, adding that the project will now have more modern houses that will
cater for more residents of Kisumu.
“This Ground breaking ceremony on affordable houses at
Makasembo Estate in Kisumu signifies the renewal and the rebirth of the Estate,”
she says.
She says the project will help in addressing the increase
demand of affordable houses in Kisumu City and its environs.
Kailuku has described the issue as an exciting journey
between the County Government of Kisumu and the Lapfund to implement and set up
low cost and decent housing for the Kisumu City residents, adding that this is
towards supporting the National Government Big Four Agenda on affordable
Housing.
She adds that the Lapfund Board is fully committed in
ensuring that it prudently invest and manage its members’ savings.
Former Prime Minister and the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya
Alliance Coalition Presidential flag bearer Raila Odinga says the issue of
shortage of housing in the country should be addressed immediately.
“What is being done here today during this ground breaking
ceremony for the affordable housing at Makasembo Estate in Kisumu is a way of
responding to the need of having affordable housing for our people who migrate
from rural to urban areas,” Odinga says.
He says there is need to have a proper land development across
the country which will see the issues of affordable housing, health facilities
and other social amenities addressed.
Odinga says the issue of the introduction of the Housing
levy is very good indeed and should be supported, adding that the current
Government of President Uhuru Kenyatta tried to introduced it but was opposed
by some people who did not understand the whole issue.
“Such fund like the
Housing Levy Fund where an employee contribute 1.5 percent and the employer
also 1.5 percent then goes into a pull of fund which can help in rolling out a
massive housing development across the country,” Odinga adds.
Nyanza Regional Coordinator Magu Mutindika has urged the
National Land Commission to repossess all the public land grabbed by the
private developers in Kisumu so that more affordable houses are constructed for
the residents of Kisumu City.
“Anybody from the National land Commission should repossess
any grabbed public land in Kisumu City without fail,” he says.
He calls upon the County Government of Kisumu to ensure that
Kisumu is properly planned.
The Makasembo Estate affordable Housing project was launched
nearly eight months ago but its ground breaking ceremony was done yesterday
that now will see the construction of 650 modern houses in the old Makasembo
Estate.
The Estate was named after the Central Nyanza Senator the
Late Dickson Oruko Makasembo.
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