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Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"Well it's the first I've gotten beaten up by the police forces (smiling)

Crowd
"Inside the House."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"God damn. All I was doing was trying to explain the level of corruption that this country is experiencing and they beat me up. The Belizean people have to understand that I am not fighting for Julius Espat, I'm not fighting for PUP, I am fighting for the people that put me here and I have to be given an opportunity to express myself for them. I mean we are having so much problems. You know why they didn't want me to talk was because they knew I had information from the Attorney general about Barrow himself. He knows it. The Speaker called me the day before and say 'boss you can't talk about that man.' You see the Speaker went on the media yesterday to try to explain that the auditor general report is not important, because they made one mistake and to have them do that in the House. I apologized, but I am talking creole because that is coming from my heart."

Jules Vasquez
"What point do you stand on? You were wrong inside the house. You accept that and you were ready to apologize."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"My point was governance in public places. I have a right to speak about corruption in public places. That's my job, I'm the chairman of PAC."

Jules Vasquez
"You insulted the Speaker. The House has rules."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"I told him the truth. He is a paid assassin for the UDP in there. He ran for the UDP. So what do you expect, us to forget that? He was the man who was trying to break up Belize by saying "ram it." This is the same guy and I have had enough of him."

Reporter
"Sir but you are asking for rules to be followed elsewhere. You are not following the rules."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"Well if the rules have to be broken in Belize right now so that we could get back our country - I want my country back! And I am ready and willing to go to jail. That's what I told the police officers. I have officers from my constituency who knows I fight for them. One of them is right behind me. I fight for them and they were honest and they were fair. Some of them beat me up, that is cool. They took you all out so that you all couldn't see how they did it."

Jules Vasquez
"How did they eject you sir?"

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"We have the video just like you."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"I am laughing right now, but it's not a laughing matter. I am feeling what the poor, oppressed people of this country faced every day - the Southside, Cayo south side too, Toledo - they can't their information when the god damn thieves are giving away passports to people left and right. 55,000 passports. That is 16% of our population have illegal of fraudulent passports - 16% of 350,000 people have illegal or fraudulent passports and they don't want us to talk about it in there."

Reporter
"What do you expect to happen after this?"

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"I don't know ma'am, but I will fight for my people to the end."

Jules Vasquez
"Mr. Leader of the Opposition, what's next for the PUP?"

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"Certainly as I was pointing out to the Speaker, that he needs to be more tolerant. That the member from Cayo South was speaking the truth and the UDP does not want to hear the truth. This was all planned out that they did not want us to talk about the auditor general report, because we know the level of corruption is from the highest levels of the UDP all the way to the bottom to the drivers. Minister are named, you have drivers named, you have UDP operatives are named and when you a put a money figure to the amount of Visas and passports that are missing, we are talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that have been stolen from the people of this country and this UDP is saying that they don't want and will not hold anybody responsible. The Prime Minister said that there was no wrongdoing when the auditor general is saying that there are illegal actions taken by ministers. This is in the report Jules and they are doing nothing about it."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"The reason why they kicked me out is because Dean Oliver Barrow and Kim Simpliss Barrow recommended a person for nationality that could not and doesn't have the requirements to pass nationality and that person is his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law didn't have the necessary information and the necessary time in Belize for him to become a Belizean citizen and Barrow in his way allow everyone to break the law so that he could have gotten his nationality and he could get his passport. Mr. Vasquez and all the media, page 172. It quite clear right there. This is the reason why they kicked me out of the House of Representatives. Who recommended him knowing fully well that?"

Reporter
"Kim Simpliss Barrow."

Hon. Julius Espat, PUP Cayo South
"And Dean Barrow. That is why they kicked me out. They don't want it on the record."

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"That is why they don't want us to discuss this record. When I was going through this I wanted to vomit, I wanted to vomit when you look at the level of corruption that's taking place under this government and nobody is going to be held accountable? Something must be wrong with this government. Jules anybody could see, look at any page you could see all the wrongdoing that is going on with this government."

Reporter
"What do expect need to happen to them?"

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"They need to be held accountable and I am saying right now, I am going to have our senators to call for a senate investigation. When Senator Lisa Shoman was calling for the senate investigation, what did Godwin Hulse say? "Let's wait for the audit report." We have the audit reports, so I am telling Godwin Hulse let's see what you are going to do. Are you going to block it again? And then once we get into government we are going to go through this and anybody that can be held liable, we are going to them liable and if they have to go to jail, they are going to go to jail. Enough is enough."

Reporter
"Sir we would not be doing our jobs if we say that the PUP past administration is named in there as well."

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"I said anybody that had any wrongdoing must be held accountable. This government was elected because they say that they were going to stop this and now we find out that it's been the worst it has ever been in the entire history of this government and we are only looking at 2013. Last month 100 visas were given. Let's not forget. When you hear for people to get their visa application accepted, they have to pay $1,000 to get into the door, they have to pay $1,000 to get into the second floor so that the committee can.. We are talking about a lot of money and until we..."

Jules Vasquez
"Even your name is there. I saw it once for recommending a Visa. I saw it. I think it's an international person. It's in the Visa One."

Hon. John Briceno, Leader of the Opposition
"Please show me the page. What I am telling you is that we also need to start to put teeth into the legislation. We have enough laws, we don't need no more regulations. What we need is put teeth, that if you do wrong, you go to jail."