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    "content": "tyrants who make our populations desire to move away. Every human being must be respected and given the dignity that he requires where he stays within that country so as to enhance the human capital because we are the people who create the wealth of this world. Therefore, the resource spread throughout the whole world is as a result of people either working in Africa, Europe, America or anywhere else. This monopolistic tendency of people thinking that this resource belongs only to them and not anybody else is wrong and we must disabuse it. When it comes to generation of wealth worldwide, everybody has an input into it. If it is raw materials, they come from Africa but we are denied the right of value addition to our products. As a result, the prices reigning in the countries of origin are peanuts. Therefore, people move elsewhere where wealth creation and social welfare is better in pursuit of wealth and jobs. However, if we were to do value addition from where the raw materials come from, there will be no need for migration at any given moment. The political climate that must reign in our country, particularly during the election period is critical. When we handle elections poorly, we run into problems and people become refugees out of their own making and migrations are bound to happen. When there is some level of discrimination, relegation and ignorance of people within a given society and country, people tend to migrate looking for greener pastures. This migration looks like a simple matter, but when looked at in its full complexity, one will appreciate that it means human beings with families and children, moving from point A to point B, with all their needs and requirements, whether social, economic or political in terms of recognition. So, it is an important area that we need to look at. Therefore, we need an international body that will police, as it were. Policing is not the right choice of word at this stage, but for want of any descriptive word, it is a body that is able to monitor – that sounds better – the movement of people and how they finally settle. The bottom line is that the dignity of the human race must at all times be upheld. On resources, when it comes to the United Nations (UN) system of budgeting, some of the money, if you have noticed, has gone towards war-torn countries. Some of it has gone towards the aftereffects of bad governance and some towards acts of terrorism that have occurred in a given county. Therefore, I thank our representatives. We are represented by the female gender and that is a good thing. Normally, they are the ones who summarize the feelings of a human being because they are part and parcel of us coming into this world. I have a lot of respect for this organisation. The migration in this world, particularly to Europe, is worrisome. The dignity that ought to be given to the migrants and their health status is also worrisome. Some of them die in undignified circumstances. These are the things we must avoid and stop in a civilized world. The only way we can do that is through engagement where our people take part in Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and give us full reports of where these malpractices are taking place, so that we can take a world audit of those countries that are showing impunity in terms of handling humanitarian crisis. People do not move just for the sake of moving; it is because something has bothered them. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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