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    "content": "landslides and the soil is sinking. Houses have been destroyed and crops have been damaged. As I speak, people have moved to schools with their livestock. Our land is hilly and so, I thought I should make this statement before I contribute to the Motion. This is very critical to us. People have camped in primary schools and are sleeping outside. There is a problem there and the people are likely to contract diseases. This is relevant to the Motion that we are debating today. I concur with the Mover of the Motion. He has done a good thing to propose that all people should access emergency medical care. Some of us go to hospital when we must go to hospital and when we are very sick. In most cases, people go to hospitals when they have emergencies. Because of our nature and the poverty level in this country, people do not go for medical check-ups including the Members who are here. We are lucky we have a medical scheme through which we can access medical check-ups, but some of us have not taken it seriously and done so. So, you can get sick or get a heart attack given the work that we do and the concentration that it requires. The issue of people being admitted to hospitals and being asked for deposits is paramount for all Kenyans. I congratulate the Mover for bringing this Motion, but we need to find a way in the Budget, so that an allocation is set aside to cater for this. I am happy we have a new Minister for Health who is not a doctor. Doctors are very sympathetic. They want to treat and attend to us, but we need somebody who will instill discipline, so that the grand corruption, which has been happening in the Ministry of Health, comes to an end. I wish to plead with the professionals to accept him. If we get a good person who can give us results, he should be given a chance. If we do not do so, this nation will not go anywhere. I want to urge my colleagues on the Majority side that we are over-sighting the Government. Our role is to point out mistakes. For example, Serem said we are taking 12 per cent. Where did she conduct census? We have not conducted census to know the number of people who are earning that kind of salary in the public sector. I would like to urge Members of the Jubilee Coalition who are here to tell their leader that his first assignment, if I were him, would be to do a census of the people who are working in the public sector, so that we can know the actual number of people who earn a salary and who work. That is what is being used as a basis for huge wages. You will find that people who are not on the payroll are not physically there. You may find that it is only seventy percent threshold that is there. We are coming from county, urban councils, city councils and Ministries. All these people earn money. So, the first thing that should be done is to claim the wage bill. When we say that, we are not criticizing. We want to help this nation. That is the purpose of performing the oversight role, so that we can point out the mistakes. I beg to support."
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