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    "id": 1375919,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this debate. At the outset, I support the Bill because village elders do play a critical role within our villages in terms of supporting the national Government administrative work. When we compare them with their county government counterparts called village administrators, the later receive some remunerations. It would only be fair for us to support and approve this Bill that seeks to establish a legal framework for anchoring this position into the existing law so that they can be gazetted. It is only after gazetting that the Budget and Appropriations Committee can provide a budget for us to offer some remuneration to the village elders. They play a critical role such as mediation. They even reduce the number of cases that are taken to court because they manage to sort out most of them within their level. The village elders are human beings with families and responsibilities. Some of them can hardly afford to take their children to school because they have nowhere else to earn any income. That is why sometimes you would find some complaints to the effect that a person who was reported to have committed a certain offence was probably asked to give a chicken or something to the village elder. This is because there is no remuneration whatsoever. Hon. Members, let us support this Bill so that there is a legislation that establishes the position of village elder in the law for them to be remunerated. I think the amount that has been proposed should be enhanced to Ksh3,000 or Ksh4,000. With those remarks, I support."
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