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"speaker_name": "Moiben, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Phylis Bartoo",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I wish all members of Moiben Constituency a happy Valentine’s Day. The roles and responsibilities of village elders are not written anywhere yet they play a very important role in our society. They have taken up duties and nobody recognises them. They are a form of security in our spaces. They are the first people we run to whenever there is a problem in our community, even in cases of theft. They provide enforcement in our spaces. When the government insists that we must have 100 per cent transition of students from primary schools to secondary schools, who are the people tasked with this responsibility apart from them? Village elders have been used as notice boards. For any information from the government to reach the grassroots level, it is none other than them who transmit the information from village to village As I traversed my constituency the other day, the village elders told me that even their wives and husbands shun them because they do not take home anything. They have been told that men and women wake up in the morning to go to work and, at the end of the day, they take home some bread or something else. However, as village elders, they only go out the whole 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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