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    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso",
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        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": "off to that fighting operational area and then the wife is separated from the individual and they start it all over again. So, as the Leader of the Majority Party has rightly said, they may not have the opportunity to have a life that you would call comfortable which we in the civilian part of life tend to enjoy. In the evening and the weekends we will go to our families. When we have time, we go to tend to our properties or farms. They do not enjoy that. What this Bill will eventually do is to allow the military to manage the soldier and their families until they have a separation with that institution. There are many who get injured in war or during the course of their training but this is a good lesson to the other one who is in the frontline because if this one will not be looked after, the other one will not have the guts or the energy to fight with valour or to try and move into that fire to help his comrade. This is because he knows in the end, he will just be like the other person. There are a few things that I would appreciate and talk about in this Bill like the Military Veterans Management Council. That allows that institution to be managed within the body of the military where on the top policy side, we have the Defence Council so that even in terms of seeking resources, it will be sought as part of the military resource package. The second thing is about the issue of education, housing and health. Many of those who retire from the military will tend to have very meagre savings because of the earnings. The major problem in our country today is about health. If there is a health package that is controlled by the military, then we believe even those who are injured or those who are wheelchair-bound are likely to have a relatively decent life towards the end. In terms of housing, or accommodation, those could be few but if you help the few then you have helped many. There are others who will say’ “What about the police?” I think that is a thought for another day but as far as the military is concerned, it is a special institution that we need to treat their case on a merited basis in what this institution has done for this country for our lifetime. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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