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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "that legislation will be made so that it can be brought to effect. Human dignity runs from so many things from land rights to so many other activities. It goes to so many other activities such that you can deal with quite a number of issues, which have not been implemented. On the issue of historical injustices, there have been commissions dealing with one thing or another, conclusions made, but there has been no implementation at all. If there is historical injustice whereby the Government needed to compensate, you find that, that compensation has not taken effect. When it comes to social and economic rights, it should be that the country is balanced so that when we make a budget, we are able to cover every aspect of the nation. I like what the nominated Member from the north has just said. That the north is the future of this country. We only require to beef up security. It has a lot of land and rivers. If all that water is tapped, then people will have enough food and there will be development. The biggest companies will be made in that particular part of the world. In the example of America, the North West, California and all other desert states were for many years neglected. When they did Hoover Dam in in Las Vegas in the middle of a desert, there is a lot of agricultural activity, which takes place from that particular area and economic activity has gone there. Las Vegas is a very big commercial town, which started in the middle of a desert. These are some of the things we need to look at so that we balance the country. We should make sure that there are no disadvantaged people. We make sure that we do not have ten billionaires and 50 million poor people who cannot put food on the table; people who when their rights are violated, they cannot be attended to. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there have been many abuses, which have gone untreated. It has to be a mixture of many things how the police work with the people, how to implement some of the Acts. Unfortunately, we have many regulations which have expired in many Acts of Parliament. I sit in the Committee of Delegated Legislation with Sen. Mungatana where Sen. Gataya Mo Fire is our Chairperson. The law provides clearly that the Minister should bring regulations for renewal to us, then they want to hide behind the Attorney-General. The Cabinet Secretary should present the regulations to this House or to our committees for us to approve or disapprove. They make them again or we work together with them. We make sure there are regulations. One of the good examples is the Public Order Act. There are regulations which were made in the year 2000 by the then Attorney General, Sen. Amos Wako, which were wonderful regulations that expired in the year 2010. There was a leeway of two years, but nobody renewed them. When there are issues and the Senate Minority Leader Minority was charged in a court, and then we realized there are no regulations to implement the Public Order Act. What is the process of declaring an assembly illegal? Consequently, after a few days, although there were other factors, the same matter was withdrawn from court because it could not be sustained for lack of regulations. When these laws are made, they are also implemented with the regulations and to make them effective. They enable us to serve as our mottos says: “For the welfare of"
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