I am sorry, Chairperson, the Minister of Finance is really heckling me today. He wants to speak on my behalf. I am not sure why I deserve this attention from him but he seems to like me too much today.
Bishop Tolo, we haven't had a chance to come back to the portfolio committee to report on this particular case. But we have to work with other cases that you have asked us, as the portfolio committee, to work on. This particular case was one of the most painful, because I had to attend to it that Sunday afternoon. We have been following this up with the National Prosecuting Authority. We have been saying to them: "Please, speed up the case so that it can be closed and we can move on and look at other centres."
What happened there is that one of those two inmates actually did us a disservice by attacking those nurses - people who were there to assist inmates and to make sure that they get the necessary medical attention. That has caused us quite a lot of no good. But I hope that the officials, wherever they are in all 243 centres in the country, will always be vigilant when they work in a correctional centre, because they are working with people who can do anything at any given time.
I am also appealing to offenders, whether they belong to numbers or gangsters, not to do that, because at the end of the day they are causing a problem for themselves with further charges. Also, these are some of the offenders, I think, we are not naive enough to believe will change. Some of them will not change; they will just continue doing the kinds of things that they are doing. We are appealing to offenders to really try their best to participate in programmes and not get involved in all these criminal activities.