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    "id": 1373441,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tinderet, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Melly",
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    "content": "the national Government village elder. On that basis, the village elder is able to advise and link the county government and national government seamlessly. We are not going to have issue of structure and enforcement because they have been doing this throughout. When the county governments want certain functions to be done, they all go to the village elder. The chiefs, Assistant County Commissioners and everybody else use village elders to identify persons of interest. The other day they assisted a lot in my constituency in a campaign to control consumption of illegal brews. It is this guy who does it. The chief reports but it is implemented by the village elders through the Nyumba Kumi initiative. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to tell this House that the issue of cost should not arise. The services of these individuals have actually been going on for all this time. If we think that village elders are not important, and that if we pay them something small they will become expensive, then let us also tell them not to be there. Then the mayhem in the society will be seen. I urge my fellow Members to support this Bill so that the national government can start paying village elders. It is not expensive service that they render; it is paramount service. With those remarks, I support."
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