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    "id": 1373434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this very important Bill that has been brought to the House by Hon. Malulu. Village elders have performed very important roles. They perform judicial functions, arbitrate cases in the villages, and actually maintain law and order. They are security personnel. They are the individuals who move up and down at night looking for criminals. They are the fabric that holds the Kenyan society together. They even mediate in family disputes and implement government programmes and policies. As we speak, we are telling the chiefs that we need 100 per cent student transition from primary school to secondary school. It is the village elder who knows every child in every homestead who may not have gone to school. It is the village elder who runs the base of this country. If you talk of issues of government, like those affecting agriculture, village elders play a crucial role. The other day we were registering farmers and the chiefs relied on the village elders to register farmers with the acreage of their farmland for purposes of fertiliser distribution. It is the village elder who carries out such activities. He takes around the CHPs in the villages."
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