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    "id": 1161778,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "I am a bit concerned that sometimes we become a society that looks at the next person to sort our problems out. We have become a society that decides everything must be sorted out by a politician or Government. This is a notion and a narrative we need to discourage because our culture or problems are fast and foremost our responsibilities, after which then they can go to government for the frameworks that Sen. Kasanga has asked for in this Motion. I like that we do not put every responsibility on Government; we are just asking for the right framework within which we can practice our culture without discrimination or any other form of barriers to our cultural diversity in this country. With those few remarks, I support this and hope that we see this being implemented even before we go on recess. Some of these things are very easily done because the culture and people exist. Everything is there; it is just a matter of pulling together these things and making sure we have a system or an environment within which our culture can thrive. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, today as I was listening to the young people at the Center for Multi-Party Democracy at the museum, one lady said she would never vote because she does not think she would be alive by the time of voting. I was very shocked and disturbed. Such is where the desperation and luck of hope and our youths are giving up. When I was talking about us not being by standers, but do something with our votes, let us vote for the right people, she said “I do not think I will be there”. How desperate has our country become? What are we going to do about that? That is the mental health that Sen. Kasanga is talking about in this Motion, where our children are becoming anxious, hopeless and suicidal. That is creating an apathy of an imaginable scale. Therefore, if culture can help, which I know it can, let us do everything possible at our disposal, including making sure that our cultural upbringing, where a child is a responsibility of everybody. If you were seen doing something wrong in the past in the villages, somebody else could discipline you. If somebody saw you being beaten unfairly, somebody would defend you. Now you find somebody being beaten, a woman’s handbag being snatched or a woman being harassed as we saw, yet nobody comes to help. That is a breakdown. I support and congratulate Sen. Kasanga and look forward to this being actualized. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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