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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "from hunger and to have adequate food to acceptable quality requires money. To access clean and safe drinking water in adequate quantities requires money. To have social security, education and emergency medical treatment require money. Mr. Speaker, Sir, where does the money come from? The money must come from the enterprises within the polity. What are we doing to our enterprises? Since Independence, we have had a culture of cannibalizing public assets and enterprises and privatizing them. As I support this Bill, we must realize these rights ride on a robust economy. If our economy goes to the dogs and become a basket case, we can only dream about these rights. That calls for a very important thing that must happen in this polity, the rule of law to ensure that public assets are put to the use and to the purpose which they are intended for. Otherwise, we will end up writing a lot of poetry about socio-economic rights, yet the Constitution itself at Article 20(5) states that: (5) In applying any right under Article 43, if the State claims that it does not have the resources to implement the right, a court, tribunal or other authority shall be guided by the following principles -” All those issues come down to money. Socio-economic rights can only be realized where the country is wealthy. We must work out and hard to make this country wealthy and protect public institutions. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, right now, the Government is obsessed with the idea of privatizing ownership of critical public assets instead of focussing on privatizing management of these assets where the public cannot manage them. We are trying to strip this country poor and naked, yet we talk of having a Constitution that declares rights that require a robust economy to achieve. In supporting this Bill, my position is that if the Government wants to really ensure these rights are realized, it must do what is necessary to recover the economy. Right now, the Government must put a break on wild spending at the top of the Executive. A lot of money is being put to unnecessary use as the country bleeds. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government has expanded the public service by introducing political actors called “Chief Cabinet Secretaries”. Sorry, what are they called?"
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