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"content": "years, we never saw the former President Kibaki in harambees, but the economy grew. He goes down as the best infrastructure President in this country. In the first two years, he expanded rural electrification programmes more than Kenya had ever had through Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Moi regimes. You never saw him anywhere in harambees or standing in public and abusing leaders. Of course, occasionally in the liberty of an old man, he would say things like mavi ya kuku and so on. Those are things that do not hurt anybody and were not aimed at anybody. Now, we have a team that is disregarding that law, ignoring everybody and constantly abusing people. God help our country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. for bringing this Bill, which is a step in the right direction. It will help us, the Senate, and the future Senate, to deal with situations when they arise. I have no doubt that those of you who will be here in the next Senate will meet and encounter a different crop of managers of county governments. For the Senators who have expressed their interest in becoming governors, including my brother sitting ahead of me, I wish them well. Having sat here and seen the excesses, abuses and theft being committed, I am sure they will do things differently. Today, if you go to the countryside – I do not know if it is the same in Makueni, Nandi and Nyandarua – there are inexplicable deaths of people from preventable diseases. Every weekend in the county, there are burials of up to 40 people. The other day when my governor was squandering Kshs70 million in a so-called investment conference, a man aged 60 years sat in the queue at the hospital for four hours, collapsed and died because he could not afford a piece of paper to take to a nurse to prescribe his medicine, which he then had to go and buy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you look around where we come from, because we all represent rural constituencies, they are inexplicable deaths going on almost everywhere. Diseases that hardly kill people are now killing people because the health sector has collapsed. If you look at the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, the national Government has only two things in health; policy and referral services. How many referral hospitals do we have? We only have Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital, Port Reitz for communicable diseases, the Spinal Injury on Lenana Road and the Mathari Mental Hospital in Nairobi. They are five in number. When you hear that Kshs5.3 billion is stolen overnight from the Ministry of Health - money that is meant for counties - then you know that we are headed in the wrong direction. I want to advise my good old classmate, Dr. Cleopa Mailu, that he should not carry other people’s crosses. He is busy saying that money was not stolen or we did not lose anything. The theft was discovered and made known to Kenyans by an internal audit of the Ministry; a public servant whom I must salute, just like Mr. D. G. Njoroge who was the Auditor-General for a long time. He was a fearless and honest auditor who always pointed out thefts upon thefts in the Government, but nobody did anything. The start of the inquiry at the Ministry of Health was: Why were devolved functions being run from the Ministry of Health when they are devolved? There are bigger scandals coming. You will remember the equipment they were forcing governors to sign for; equipment that that cost Kshs11 billion was paid for by a well known crooked person - Kshs38 billion. There is a scandal coming. In the next elections, we will have a field day on this Government. I do not know where they will stand to defend this. I beg to support. 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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