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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Bisau Kakai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Motion is very crucial in terms of what we promised our constituents during the campaigns leading to the last general elections. I thank Hon. Mutuse for moving it. The first point of contact in our constituencies are village elders. When a cow or boda boda is stolen, or when there is domestic violence or a dead body is found by the roadside, the first point of contact is the village elder. The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, regional commissioners, county commissioners, sub-county commissioners and other administrators would be living in space without village elders. However, village elders have completely been neglected. The government that has been formed believes in bottom-up policy and it is going to implement this Motion. Village elders stick with us through thick and thin. They ensure that we have security. Where do they get airtime to make phone calls to the security apparatus? Some of them have to move around at night even during the rainy season. They need warm clothes, which they buy using their own funds. They need gumboots and torches. Who buys these things for them? How do they move from point “A” to point “B” when they are called to respond to an issue? I would like to request that this Motion is taken seriously by the appropriate Ministry in terms of establishing clear terms of reference. However, it does not mean that when new terms of reference are put in place, we ignore those who are already in place. The terms should enable us to have the best village elders. A village elder should have people-oriented skills and be someone who is respectable in society. He or she should be a peacemaker and someone who appreciates diversity. Paying them is not sufficient. We should see to it that they have a medical cover through the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). They should have a pension fund so that they have something to fall back to when they attain retirement age or when they decide to quit service."
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