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    "id": 876462,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "These are some of the things this Bill would look to improve with a view of ensuring that our investment in the health sector is improved. When that is done, the promise in our Constitution will be realised because we have a right, as a people, to adequate healthcare. The President has identified universal healthcare as a key strategic pillar under the Big Four Agenda. Poverty remains a big thing and gender inequality is also prevalent. Economic policy is not supposed to abet extreme inequality like holding back women’s economic empowerment. Our rural women work on 96 per cent of our land but they only own 6 per cent of the land. How is it that so much work by so many women only gives them access to so little in terms of economic empowerment? They do not have any collateral even if they are to go to a bank. They do not have anything in their name because they only own 6 per cent of the land resources in this country yet almost a 100 per cent of rural land is being worked on by women. Why is it that the work of women is not translating to economic resources that they can enjoy? These are some of the inequalities and the things that are leaving a lot of the population behind especially the youth and women, who do a lot of the work but own very little of what they work on. The time of reform is now and this Bill is part of that reform. It seeks to put in place mechanisms that will make sure that our Constitution is not just a piece of paper but that we work on a daily basis to achieve the promise of a good nation and the promise that is contained in the Bill of Rights. The Senate Majority Leader seconded this Bill in the First Senate, and I have the privilege of having him second it again when I moved it hence history has come to full cycle. This is an important Bill and we need to pay attention to some of the provisions within it. The principals in it should be the principles of our country where nobody is left behind and nobody or no child in this country is disadvantaged socially, economically or health wise. Nobody, including Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) or women that I have just talked about, who are more than a half and work on land almost all the time but own nothing, should be disadvantaged. That should be corrected."
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