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    "content": "cameras. Hardly do we morally reflect this in our lifestyles. You get an opportunity and you steal from the very poor. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I heard some of us talk about this opportunity where people commit acts of fraud in the procurement of medicine. Today, the national Government takes care of maternal health. How does it monitor the utilization of this maternal health? They give Kshs5,000 per mother. They need to mainstream it. It is not enough to give these counties which are already corrupt and without processes. If it is a conditional grant, let every penny go to maternal healthcare. The people who do this are sleeping in Karen and Lavington estates. What is happening in this country is annoying. Sometimes people ask us why we are so annoyed. How is it possible for you to live in Kenya and care for this country and not get annoyed? You must be living in abject privilege. We have no conscience. Look at what is happening; pictures of poor and vulnerable people. This is where it happened. If you did it to a son or daughter of the mighty, you would have been in jail or resigned for negligence. We are telling them to investigate one year on. Where is the sense of outrage and consciousness in this country? It is difficult. As young Kenyans who have grown up in the system, we are trying our best every day to avoid material greed which puts our country into abject poverty. What has happened in this country over the last 50 years is history that we must rewrite so that the future generation will learn. If we need to make an about-turn in our healthcare systems, we need to start making sure that every public servant visits these institutions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should stop this issue of being given insurance; where you even get a priority card for Nairobi Hospital so that your life is better than everybody else. This needs a mind shift. We are a class of privileged spoilt brats, as Kenyans put it. We think we can jump queues at the airport, must be given the best cars or use fuel guzzlers. Some people do not even know how much it cost to make a phone call because most of their life, institutions of government have been footing their bills. They do not know the cost of fuel or anything else in this country. They will not even be affected by what was in yesterday’s Gazette Notice because the public is paying for their facilities. So, we relinquish the majority of us to poverty, and then come to this Senate, bring a report later and say: “Investigate”. I remember that there was a son of a professor from the United States International University (USIU) who was mistakenly shot by the police. The police was prosecuted for murder within days. When the son of hon. P.K Muiruri was shot, under the pretext of being a Mungiki, the man is under death row but when this happens to the poor, who we must protect in this society, we write a report of the Senate and probably this will rest there. What will happen? How many Senate reports have I seen? What is different about this one? So, let us back ourselves with some bit of honesty as a country. It has reached a point where we must say enough is enough. We have ruined this country."
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