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    "id": 1060956,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060956/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. About elders, we have engaged with the Ministry of Interior and National Coordination at the Implementation Committee level. Their take is that we need a law to make an amendment in the Chief’s Act to bring in the village elders there so that they can also be remunerated and properly elected. I did submit a law which I went ahead to make a presentation at the Budget and Appropriations Committee but the Budget and Appropriations Committee, one year down the line, has never brought any response whatsoever on the same yet the Ministry was in agreement that we do a law that supports payment and taking care of the village elders. So, to say that the Ministry will actually take care of the village elders and all that will not happen if there is no law that backs it. I did that as a duty to my country but I have not seen any response. I have always been talking to the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations about this thing but he keeps on shifting from one place to the other. I have also talked to the Clerk. He has not given me any response, and yet I made a very good presentation at the Committee. No report has been presented to me or this House."
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