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    "id": 877035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "Thank you once again, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is probably the final part of this Bill. Again, it is a very important Bill because it is a human rights Bill. It is a Bill that picks our conscience, so I beg to support this Bill that our sister, Sen. Halake Abshiro, has brought and moved before this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, anything that has to do with human rights especially one that looks at the dignity of a human being requires that we put all our conscience in it. This Senate will do a great job; it will go into the annuals of history and be remembered for passing a Bill like this one. However, this is the kind of a Bill that requires that we look at ourselves and renew our conscience about how we deal with the rights of fellow human beings. I just want to cite one thing in Clause 4; the only thing that I am going to highlight is the guiding principles that we are given under this Bill which we need to look at very critically. It says- “All persons under this Act shall in the performance of their functions under this Act be guided by the following principles in addition to the national values and principles set out under Article 10 and 174 of the Constitution.” They are many principles but I just want to highlight two. “The empowerment and capacity building as means of promoting the realization of economic and social rights;” The national Government and county governments need to listen to this. The idea is to have human beings attain economic independence, attain freedom economically and socially. One of the things is we pass rules and regulations – we sometimes act without necessarily involving those whom we want to serve. It says here that we must, therefore, have an empowerment capacity as a means of promoting that. The other one is the very obvious one called transparency in implementing of progarammes and activities. One of the sources of corruption in our counties comes from not adhering to these two. First of all, there is no public participation or giving information to the people we serve, but most importantly acting in an opaque manner. It is not transparent in many issues. I just want to encourage that as we deal with this matter, let us retain our African culture of taking care other people. It is very easy for Africans if they were to get back to the roots to think about other people in terms of promoting human dignity. I would like therefore to support and thank the Mover of this Bill, and ask my colleagues to support. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support."
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