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    "id": 1373426,
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    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nabii Nabwera",
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    "content": "that mean? It means that the person with credible information, and who can be relied on, is the village elder. If this country can recognise and regularise the services of Community Health Promoters (CHP), why can it not appreciate and pay for the services of village elders? What will it cost us to do so? If you were to go to my village, the only person who knows a new person is the village elder. I can tell you, even the war against terrorism, the moment we entrench village elders into the formal structure of the national government administration, we will win it. This is because they know everybody in the villages. In the whole world, a bubble generation is going through a difficult time such that we have to motivate our children to go to school. If we want to realise the millennium goals on education, we must entrench and formalise the village elders in the national government administrative structure. This is because they take care of the smallest administrative unit and they know everyone in their communities. They will help us to ensure that every child goes to school. I have heard an argument that paying them would be very costly. I have an opportunity of serving in the Public Accounts Committee. If we were to cut corruption by one per cent, we would have enough money to pay the village elders. It behoves this House to put systems in place that will ensure there is no corruption in the country so that we can save some money to pay village elders. We are in a generation where we want everyone to be dignified. What is dignifying in having somebody working for free? At the end of the month they should earn a salary the same way the Deputy County Commissioners, the Assistant County Commissioners, the chiefs and assistant chiefs, and Members of Parliament do. It is not dignifying for men we rely on not to earn anything. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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