Kalenjin → English transcript

Now, if we take… For example, the issue of Ziwa,

and Kesses, and Turbo, the issue of the hospital.

And life is hard for people there,

they are really suffering. I would like them to finish it,

to finish it and hand it over. And also the

Turbo hospital project,

the Kesses hospital project, the Ziwa hospital project.

But the thing that causes problems

is the part of the National Government versus the county part.

Are we going to keep arguing about which side the hospital belongs to?

That is not right.

Because who ends up suffering? It is the ordinary citizen.

But as we talk about development issues,

let us not forget those National Government hospitals.

Will we be debating a small hospital forever? No, we will finish it.

Because if we really just agree, agree, agree,

agree. Governor.

Former Governor.

Let us work together. Let us say completely, it is what hurts us.

That is what makes our hospitals dirty, we cannot change anything.

That is one problem, that is another problem. When

you bring up an issue in Finland, they listen.

When it is something to do with the elderly,

they protect and defend them very carefully.

Here, we will just keep quiet and stay silent. Because we fear.

Number two. You bought NYS machines.

You said completely that...

they are the ones that will build the roads. Hoo! Hoo! Honestly,

you were shown those machines that were working very well. What happened with them?

You moved them and took them away, the youth were left empty- handed.

Some of those machines were broken, others disappeared.

The machines that were working were taken elsewhere.

Although this is a County issue, still, through talking and shouting,

we can get our rights.

The machines that were there under contract, the ones that were personal.

That is why those people chose one person with a car, a really big NYS man,

and they picked one car to go around.

But the barber is right there with Jackson.

The money they were talking about...

is the one that was taken...

the hundreds of millions of shillings,

that went to Eldoret. They were taken.

They ended up there. In a certain home.

They were taken to our own home near our place. To our Governor for ten years.

So when you give your vote to this person... ten years he was a Governor.

Seven billion times ten. Seventy billion. Where did that money go?

Your heart hurts so much, you feel pain, but you still want to elect him Governor.

I do not know where the constitution is. Maybe it says that...

the money from Eldoret and the whole country must first pass through his hands.

Does that really sound right?

We no longer see any development,

yet the money from Eldoret is a lot.

Not even for a single day.

Nothing. And he himself knows, the people of Eldoret are angry. They are furious.

Our elders told you. That is why we are standing firm. I am not moving.

The sun is very hot. It is burning.

In the past they used to steal, they would just take.

They would disappear at night and just take things.

If your master or boss took something, they would just take it. No one could

say anything.

Government business is like that.

What did you think government business was?

Sometimes a case would stay in court for years,

sometimes even up to the Governor. It took a very long time.

They could lock you up for one day over a small thing,

and you would just sit in pain.

Or they would put you in a cell by yourself and wait. They would wait.

They spoiled the work.

You do not know the things that… that we really went through.

It reached a point where they would even destroy things.

You would be left completely empty- handed.

You would go back home with nothing at all.

I am telling you this because I do not want you to suffer the way we suffered,

they planned for us and brought us developments. Those of Uasin Gishu.

But that is just on paper. You sleep in mud, in suffering.

And you are completely ignored.

You are such a very blalafakin person.

There is a hospital in Turbo that you see, but it was built by the County.

When you go to have it built by the National Government, you see a hospital.

There is a hospital in Ziwa that you see, but it was built by the County.

Built by the National Government.

There is a hospital in Kesses that you see, but it was built by the County.

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you see it, but it was built by the County. The market in Eldoret that you see,

it was built by the County.

In everything we are talking about,

when it comes to building, who is praised? There are only two graders they brought,

and they are County ones, those graders are three or four.

Or they are Chinese graders.

The work they do takes so many years,

We must fix the issue of the youths who were in Kile Kienjin.

Those who went to do the training that was at NYS.

The boys who were at NYS, when they went there,

they were told it was about medicine, but they ended up doing construction work.

Boys who were taken to the roadside, carrying stones for

building the road.

And those who came back as graders from NYS, they were about three or four,

I remember.

We must do a very serious canvassing for MTC.

Because you elected the President for this hospital, and you elected the County.

And as you thank the President, you, honorable members,

must also thank Turbo’s son, Mandago.

He is the one who persuaded the President.

It was done… There is a plan…

that will address the issues of the hospital here in Tirot.

We did stakeholder engagement,

including the member of Parliament.

They said that if there is any value to be added, it should be this Tirot

hospital in Turbo. It was agreed at MTC,

that since this land is thirty acres,

and it belongs to the County government. So, Madam Janet, design any.

I am not a Member of Parliament from the Chairman, but from the Health Committee.

And I hear my colleague the Chairman saying that when they reviewed the budget,

they did not put MTC as a priority.

They left out a lot of citizens’ issues,

and you are raising such matters.

Because there is a very big shortage like that, such a shortage is very serious.

For example,

when you look at admission figures,

a certain percentage,

because they did not prioritize MTC.

Many of our children are left out.

So we should now deal with that gap that has arisen among the citizens.

Another thing is elsewhere, because they… are now searching for certificates,

which they end up buying at great cost.

Am I lying? Yes.

So we should act quickly.

These are NYS programs,

but they have been turned into NYS things,

they are taking money meant for this system, then bringing it to the County,

misusing it because they have power.

But if you do not find this kind of pasture, then the cows will become very thin.

Mami is the train driver,

and she said if the train comes and finds you on the tracks,

it will cut off your leg. Do you understand?

Yes. Others have been hurt by vehicles, because they walk too close to the road.

When the train goes up here,

I keep my children far away from the railway line.

I saw a person who had an accident,

and they had to be taken to Eldoret.

Do not play around the railway lines, they are very dangerous. Thank you.