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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Makali Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I sit on both the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. In the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, we have a draft Bill which is trying to address this matter and see how we can harmonise the main one under the assistant chief and the ward administrators. We are working on that. I am very sure within a very short time of not more than two months, the Committee should propose a Bill to be debated. I urge Members that when the Bill comes, we should fast-track and pass it. I remember at one point there was such a Bill in the Senate. The Senate had already passed it. I do not know where it disappeared to between the Senate and the National Assembly. We need to take this matter seriously. I agree with those Hon. Members who said that the kind of work village elders do in this country is not done by the chiefs and assistant chiefs. A research was conducted and it was confirmed that village elders are the first stop when you want to achieve justice in this country. They deal with marital relationship issues and child-father The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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