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"speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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"content": "They also help us identify children for the purpose of issuance of National Identification Cards (IDs). They tell us whether a child was born there or was brought from elsewhere because the father is a pastor or he is a stepson, daughter or grandson. They help us identify the youth and facilitate the issuance of IDs to the right people. They also help in identifying illicit alcohol brewers. Those of us from the rural areas know that one of the reasons why our youth today are getting out of hand is because of the illicit brews and marijuana that they take. The village elders help the police and administrators to identify the wrong people. These people work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 30 days a month but we have done nothing for them. As Members of Parliament, when we go home, these are the fellows who approach and tell us that they have a child, grandchild or neighbour who is sick and they need money to facilitate them. I think we are going to look at the Budget and see how much we can allocate the village elders. None of us can say that village elders are not important in their constituencies. Given that they are working very hard and helping us to resolve security issues, I would like to mobilise my colleagues who may not be around so that in the coming Budget, we put something aside to help this group. I meet them every weekend I go home. I left home this morning. Yesterday, I had three such elders coming to see me with very good ideas and suggestions. In the next Budget, Members, kindly do us a favour by supporting this Bill. Thank you, Hon. Injendi for coming up with this Bill. It is something that is on the ground. Let us allocate something to assist the village elders so that we can be able to work together as a community. I look forward to the Members who are present and those who are not mobilising support for this Bill when the time of voting comes so that when it comes to its budget proposal, we introduce some amendments to enable us assist this group. I support the Bill. 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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