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"content": "(NCPWD) undertake registration of survivors with disabilities. Again, there is no report that has been attached here. From where we sit as the Senate, it is clear that the Ministry has not done registration of the victims. If the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has not registered or issued the people affected with certificates of disability, we will be seen to be lagging behind. We are making huge requests, but what have we done as a nation? The MoH and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection have not done their part. The Prime Cabinet Secretary, who is also the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, is supposed to push the matter of compensation at the Cabinet level. There is no evidence that has been attached here to suggest that the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs has actually been putting the necessary pressure at the Cabinet level. /What Hon. Mudavadi should have done is to develop a white paper for consideration at the Cabinet level. If our people are being denied what is rightfully theirs and it is only the Senate that is pushing this matter without the backing of the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs at the Cabinet, then I register my disappointment. The last directions that were given by the Committee, that is (iv), was that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration develops regulations to operationalise Compensation of Victims of the Terrorism Fund. Again, those are just regulations. The Compensation for Victims of Terrorism Act was passed after this bomb blast. However, the regulations need to be put in place, so that in the event anything happens in future, we hope it does not, victims can benefit from this Act. Again, Hon. (Prof.) Kindiki has not yet developed regulations as directed by the Senate so that we can put the agenda for the victims of the United States of America (USA)1998 bomb blast on the table. As we seek the help of the USA so that the victims of the 1998 bombing can be compensated, it is shameful that our own Ministries have not done what they are supposed to do. It is also shameful that even after the directions from the Senate after it met the victims of the bombing, nothing has happened. Cabinet Secretaries have not done their bit in their various capacities and yet, we are here asking the President to go and push the agenda. I pray that in approving these reports, our comments will be taken into consideration and will also include the fact that we are urging the Ministries of Health and Labor and Social Protection; the National Council for Persons with Disabilities, the Cabinet Secretaries in charge of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs and Interior and National Administration, to do the necessary as directed by the Committee. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have had an opportunity to serve as an assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in the previous Government administration. It is not very good diplomatically. If you are going to ask for help, for example, if your country has had a disaster of any form, you must tell your potential helpers that you have done this, but still, it has overwhelmed you. Therefore, you need their support in this manner. Just like when we have disasters such as the 1998 bomb blast, the Ministries of Health, Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Interior and National Administration and Labor and Social Protection should say, what they have done, but are overwhelmed on the question of compensation. So, they are still asking for more so that they can settle the compensation claims. If this is the way we approach this matter, even those people will The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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