Mr. Chair, unfortunately in the world that I have grown up in, it is a reality that some people are, you might say, more focused and determined to have things their way than others. And it very often creates a situation where people are intimidated into doing and saying things they may not necessarily do in a normal course of action.
People have to be protected. At the same time, people have to be accountable. I had no difficulty with that in 1987 when I was first elected. I said I would be very willing to stand up in front of the entire Assembly and tell every Member who I was going to vote for and why. I would be accountable to the public that way. Nobody agreed with me, so we still vote by secret ballot. I raised that because that is one way to be accountable.
In regard to running government, I agree that patronage is something we all have to avoid. We were joking yesterday that for those people that continue to insist that Stephen Kakfwi has no friends, that is a good thing because I have nobody to patronize.
Thank you.