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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "system, we are wasting our time. We are just allowing the Pan-African Paper Mills to destroy our forests. They will run away to India or to wherever they came from, and we will continue to import electricity poles from as far as Finland. Getting connected to electricity is very expensive because we import the poles. We should try to use concrete poles. For the moment, we should re-start the shamba system. If this country is to re-afforest, let us allow the shamba system. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. We have seen the Ministry going to areas where we have not had water before. I want to remind the Minister that there are several water projects, for example, in my area, which were started in the colonial days using the Sweenerton Plan. I would wish that these projects are rehabilitated. If we say we want to use the CDF, then this will mean that we want to use the CDF for huge projects, which it cannot sustain. I want to talk about the Ministry of Health. The Ministry is being given Kshs300 million for salary adjustments. The Ministry should use some of this money to subsidise the cost of treatment in Government health facilities. The Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret comes to my mind. This hospital has disenfranchised many Kenyans. Thousands and thousands of identity cards have been left at the hospital by patients or their relatives. I sometimes wonder under which law a hospital would take an identity card in exchange of an unpaid debt. Lawyers will tell us this, but many Kenyans have been disenfranchised. I want to urge the Ministry of Health - I wish the April 24, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 857 Minister was here - to look into this issue. The Ministry should have sought more money from the Government to subsidise medical cost in Government hospitals. We have been told that Tuberculosis patients should be given free treatment. But in Moi Referral and Teaching Hospital in Eldoret, they are \"thrown\" away to go and die. Once somebody has Tuberculosis of the lungs or the bones, they do not survive. Finally, I would like to request that there should be a harmonious relationship between the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) and the Treasury. We have sought to have a Fund for the PSC and we have had road blocks put on our way. Parliament should have its own Fund. Treasury is looking for financial independence. Parliament is given financial independence by the Constitution, but we are being denied. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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