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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "she must not allow their workers to work for not more than a certain number of hours and if they will work overtime, an amount of money has to be paid, and that those people will pay taxes and be accountable to the country. If those values and principles of trade and labour will not be adhered to, we will not go anywhere as a country. I support Sen. Sakaja‟s initiative and push. Some speakers said that he brings a Motion here. I do not want him to bring a Motion. I would love that Sen. Sakaja and his Committee create a proper hearing of all the complainants in this country. I saw a thread on twitter of some people being robbed in Kampala by Uber drivers and so on. Some of them have resorted to crime because they will not make a living based on their work. They have decided to rob passengers. Passenger security is not guaranteed when they are operating in a business environment that they are not happy with. It is akin to having a house girl in your house - you pay her miserably, beat her and sometimes deny her food, and then you leave her with your children at home to cook for the family. Honestly, you cannot do that and expect that you will not be poisoned one day or expect your child to be safe in the hands of a house girl you mistreated. So, every time you mistreat a worker, those who are supposed to be served will suffer. This nation will not be healthier if we do not deal with it as an important issue. Finally, is the question of security of this nation and particularly for young people. There is a problem. I do not think I can stand here and profess that I can diagonise exactly what the problem with young people is, but there is trouble. There is something that is troubling the young people of this Republic. I think we have a problem with communication and social media.There is also societal pressure regarding communication. These relationships are run on social media platforms, for example, WhatsApp. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the old days, and I am sure Sen. (Prof.) Kamar and yourself are good witnesses here - we are younger than you - if you wanted to date somebody you went the whole length to talk to them. It had to be a face to face conversation, and if you must communicate through other means, it was a letter that was delivered in two weeks time, and then, you waited anticipatingly for another two weeks. On the other hand, nowadays, a lot of communiation goes on WhatsApp. There is also instant messaging and relationships are so instant. Before someone meets another, you are told that they are already relating and before long they are already fighting and eventually kill each other. There are multiple sources of the problems that we have in the country. An example is social behaviour. The other one is about us, our parenting, maybe because of the pressure of work, we do not have more time to engage our children and even where we have the time, we are not trained to guide them. I am sure your generation have done well but we, in the younger gneration, have to be trained on how to bring up children. I do not know how many people of my genration can take time to go for a training on how to bring up a child. I have gone for those kinds of training and sometimes you think you know so much because we were brought up in a different set up. Some of us were brought up in the village set up where everybody was in charge of us. The neighbour would beat you and the teacher was strict. If you were a young person hanging around shopping centre, you were chased away to go home. Grown ups The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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