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    "content": "of that, the old man lived on and on. Do not remove old African people from the warmth of their families. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as you continue to read this Bill, you find that in Clause 10, Sen. (Prof). Lesan says that the community based programmes established under Sub-section 1, shall consist of :- “(a) Prevention and promotion programmes.” What does he mean by prevention? Delete the word “prevention” and let it read “promotion of programmes” Clause 11 that speaks to home based care should be deleted for the reasons that I have said. Let me tell you about a young Senator here because he is the age of my son. He shared with me how much he loves his grandfather. Sen. (Prof.) Lesan thinks that because young Sen. Sang is a lawyer and a Senator who has money, and he loves his grandfather, that his love is different from the love that his age mate who is a goat herder in Nandi has for his grandfather. It is the same. Let the circumcision age mate of Sen. Sang enjoy relating with his grandfather the same way that Sen. Sang does. It is granted that Sen. Sang would allow his grandfather to enjoy watching television. However, a goat herder, who is his age mate and cannot afford a television, will express his love by helping his grandfather to listen to a radio powered by two batteries. They sit and one of them watches news while the other one listens to news. They will discuss news and feel they are loved. When they meet in church, they will discuss events that they heard on radio and watched on television. Both of them will feel that they are equal. What county governments should be doing in this Bill is to build up on the social programme that is currently being given out by the Jubilee Government – although in a very bad way – where aged people receive actual cash. We should make sure that we make medical services universal so that every aged person has got access to a national hospital insurance card. If that is the case, then, you will be talking like an African. What is this obsession about White people, many of whom you went to school with and never beat most of you? Instead, you used to beat them. I have colleagues, many of whom are doctors. I remember Prof. Lule, Dr. Ndombi and I leading the team that took the former Vice President, Michael Kijana Wamalwa to Hempstead Hospital in London. While we were there, the very professors that we had taken him to were asking us in the ward round: “What do you mean by this?” That shows that there is nothing special about them. That is their culture of homes. When I become an old man, I would want my grandchildren to ask me how a bull should leave the compound in the morning when you want it to win. I will train them how bull-fighting is done. Now, you want to lock me up so that I cannot enjoy bull-fighting in Malinya Stadium when I become an old man! You should let my children walk me there to enjoy bull-fighting. This is what we are talking about. Some of the old people enjoy beer, especially, busaa. Some of them take a little bit of chang’aa. You now want to take them to homes of the aged where they will be read the Bible the whole day yet not all of them subscribe to that? Let the ones who would wish to go and enjoy busaa do so in their homes. Let them enjoy a glass of chang’aa which – for your information because you are a doctor like me – has got a strong curative value. The obsession that alcohol is bad comes from just certain quarters in this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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