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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I hope we can now continue with the debate. Thank you for the guidance. Our intention is to highlight so that Members can understand. You may call the seconder to second the Motion. I had explained where we have come from. I had clarified why this is important and I was at a point where I was reminding members that in the constituencies where all of us have been elected, there are village elders with different names like Wazee waKijiji . Part of the promises many of us made in our campaigns was to urge the Government of the day to remunerate them. We know the hustles they go through every day without pay. We do this on the basis that the existing law gives the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration a leeway to recognise administrative units, gazette them and, in consultation with the President and the Public Service Commission, recruit officers to work under those administrative roles. Hon. Temporary Speaker, under the law, the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Administration created counties and appointed County Commissioners as administrative officers under those units. They also created sub-counties and appointed Deputy County Commissioners to work under those units. Under Section 15 of the National Government Coordination Act, they created divisions and appointed Assistant County Commissioners to work under those units. There are locations and chiefs who coordinate national Government functions at that service delivery level. There are also sub-locations where we have sub-chiefs who coordinate national Government functions at that level. Therefore, it is imprudent that it has taken long for the national Government to gazette, using the powers under Section 14 of the National Government Coordination Act, the village as an administrative unit and, therefore, pave way for the recruitment of village elders and their remuneration. Our Motion is also premised on the provisions of our Constitution. Under Article 41 of our Constitution, every citizen of this country is entitled to be remunerated for the work that he does. Article 10 of the Constitution is on national values which are binding to all state officers. The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Administration is a state officer. It is a mandatory requirement that citizens are accorded their necessary dignity. Village elders are citizens of this country. The Cabinet Secretary is a state officer. Therefore, he is obligated under Article 41 of the Constitution to cause the remuneration of village elders, so that they are accorded the dignity that the Constitution demands for them. 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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