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"content": "knew; but now you are pontificating about accountability and telling people that it is your duty to hold everybody to account! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Lord Jesus said, “Remove the log in your own eye before you see the spec in somebody else’s eye.” That is the big question. The Judiciary appears to be working on cases of corruption. I hope that people are not being sent to jail as an example and a sacrifice, but on the basis of evidence. Anybody who pilfers, steals or misappropriates public funds has no business holding or seeking public office. Above all, they should be ashamed of pontificating about accountability as we have been seeing here and there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to say what I intended to say; let me talk about public debt. This country is being weighed down heavily by public debt. Even the Big Four Agenda rolled out by President Uhuru Kenyatta will be pulled down because our revenue is going towards payment of public debt. The first charge to the National Treasury is public debt. Once we pay public debt, we now have the hyenas and the thieves waiting in the corner with sharp knives to slice off what is left in the usual manner. We want to see this country transform. This is the bane of Africa. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have travelled a lot in Africa, social transformation is completely lacking. We talk of a very handsome Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, all manner of things and roll out statistics and so forth. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, during campaigns, I visited your home areas of Marimanti, Kiajahi and others. Your village is not different from where I come from. The people of 1960s are the same ones of today, if not worse. They are poorer, helpless and unable to move. Whenever one goes home, the constituents will raid you every morning looking for very simple things. You can see here that we are saying we have allocated money in lieu of payment of hospital fees by wananchi . However, how many of them come to you looking for money to pay for hospital bills? This happens every day. Whatever we want to do, if healthcare is free, we must make sure it is so. This includes making public health facilities so efficient and available that wananch i who want to go to expensive hospitals think twice because they will get better services in public hospitals. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I cannot end without mentioning something about the Cuban doctors. The people who are crying against the doctors do not know what they are saying. Cuba has the best healthcare system in the world. In Cuba, health facilities are better than in the United States of America (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. They have trained their doctors well. Brazil, which is mega economy amongst the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries, enjoys 15,000 Cuban doctors in its health institutions. Therefore, these doctors coming here are going to work like Spartans. I want to encourage our doctors. We are not saying they are any lesser good, they are good. However, a good thing can always give way to a better thing. A better thing can always give way to the best thing. Work with those Cubans and see their work ethic. You will realise that they will not steal any public medicine to run and make money in their private clinics. Thank you so much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I 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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