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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to make a few observations on the Financial Statement. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I would like to say that I am happy about the so- called growth of the economy. This growth of the economy by 6.1 per cent has been so much publicized and celebrated that one would easily say that it could be propaganda. What is on paper is not the reality on the ground. What is on the ground is totally incompatible with the 6.1 per cent growth of the economy. In fact, the Government has agreed in a report it published recently, that 16.5 million citizens of this country live below the poverty line. They are living on less than a Dollar per day. It cannot be thoroughly compatible. The poverty level in this country has been rising everyday, month and year. We have not been able to fight poverty in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the human economic pyramid, you will see that the apex represents a very small percentage of people who enjoy economic growth. However, the base of the pyramid represents squalor, poverty, hunger and diseases which are still rampant. So, what are we talking about? Nothing has trickled down to those people. Those people in the apex of the pyramid are really enjoying. They have more than they need. Those are the super-rich people in this country and most of their riches are ill-gotten. Most of the riches have been embezzled from our natural resources. It is true that nothing is trickling down to the ground. It is all being enjoyed up there by a very small percentage of people, but nothing is going down. No bread crumps are going down from the table of the rich to the poor when millions of \"Lazarus's\" are suffering and dying of hunger. Their children go to sleep without food. So, that is a myth which is incompatible with the real situation on the ground. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, many hon. Members have spoken about corruption in this House. It is very true that we cannot develop our economy when corruption is still rampant. I have not, and"
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