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"content": "In the same country, Cuba, the biggest challenge of health that we have in this country, that is malaria, is not there. Cuba has no malaria, whatsoever! This is because they have eradicated the mosquito. Since the Cuban people love Africa, they have prepared a budget for what it would cost to eradicate malaria in Kenya. You will not believe it - they are going to spray this country once in three months over a period of nine months. Every time they spray, they have already budgeted for it. It will cost them US$10.5 million which translates to Kshs750 million for every spray. If they do it three times, that will cost a mere Kshs2.5 billion. You spend that amount of money and malaria is gone! I am telling you authoritatively as a qualified, trained and examined doctor of medicine that malaria accounts for 70 per cent of all admissions in our hospitals. The moment you eradicate malaria, all the money that goes to the health sector will go to the education sector and other needy areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I mention something about planning for tourism. It is true that the tourism sector is very attractive and lucrative in this country. However, we have remained traditional. For God's sake, please, we should quickly open up the western tourist circuit because if you go west you have no idea about the potential that is there. Today, I am struggling alone as an individual to open up a unique product for the world market in the name of bull fighting. All of you have been seeing it on television. It is scintillating, captivating and nice. People would pay to see that. But what support do I get from the Ministry? I get nothing. I am building a stadium of Kshs25 million from the CDF. This is a project that would add up to the other scenic things that are in western Kenya and the number of tourists coming to this country will increase. I want to say the final thing and I do not wish to be controversial. Please, as you plan for equality in this country, also plan for the politics of this country. This is because attempting to achieve equality without being sensitive to the dynamics of politics in this country will extinguish all the development that we have done. What we saw at the beginning of this year was because of unequal opportunities in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know that the opportune time will come. I am not October 21, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2869 breaking the Standing Orders because there is no Motion before this House. However, when the Waki Report comes to this House, I beg hon. Members, that if we want justice to come, please, let us not succumb and form a tribunal in Kenya to try and interrogate this thing. If we do that, it will be led by a Kenyan and all Kenyans have their loyalties to individuals, communities and so on. That person will miscarry justice. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important that this process be concluded in the international fora and let these people be taken to The Hague. When you are in the Hague and you are a son of a rich man, nobody cares that your father is rich. If you are rich yourself, nobody cares that you are rich. If you are a strong politician, nobody cares about that. If you do it in Kenya, communities will fight because they will see the hand of unfairness. With those many remarks, I beg to support."
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