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    "id": 1353694,
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    "speaker_name": "Sotik, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Francis Sigei",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, tell them! I stand to support this amendment, but I want to state my interests. I am a member of the Administration and Internal Security Committee but today, I am standing here as the Member of Parliament for Sotik. Secondly, I am also standing as a respected member of the society. I have been a district officer for seven years; a district commissioner for 14 years, and a provincial commissioner for four years. I will not brag if I say I am a consummate and pragmatic administrator. I also want to say I support Hon. Injendi and thank him. He is talking on behalf of many Kenyans who have suffered for a long time. I have worked with those people. There are no better patriotic Kenyans who serve this country with distinction and without payment. Those are the people who have served this country and all the regimes, right from Independence from the late Hon. Mzee Kenyatta, to the late Mzee Moi, to Mheshimiwa Kibaki, Mheshimiwa Uhuru and currently Mheshimiwa Ruto. This is the artery of the nation security. Those people are everything; they are jacks of all trade, they do virtually everything. Every morning, Kenyans go to them. I have been lamenting in my area because when they go in the morning, they take their own issues, even domestic and family issues. Some of the families have even fought the night before. They are given a cup of tea. Those people have suffered. So, I stand here to support those Kenyans who have suffered, and I want to support the Mover of this Motion, Hon. Injendi; a loyal Kenyan. What he is asking is simple, that this Act be amended so that those people who have worked for this country are recognised by law, simple. The funds they are asking for are not much. How much went to KEMSA? Recently, we were told that this country was losing Ksh2 billion every day. We are not asking for too much by giving those Kenyans Ksh1 billion. I do not want to dwell on those issues, but those village elders play a key and critical role in this country. This House has not put its foot down when it comes to the allocation of that money. We have previously budgeted and appropriated money to many institutions which do not play such a critical role. If we support this, we will attract a lot of court cases. You are aware of the land cases in this country. Village elders have been magnanimous in solving them. Those cases could have cost this country a lot of money. Why can we not allow those people to enjoy Ksh5,000 in the current economy? It is little money. 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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