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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bifwoli",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Lands",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute to this noble and gracious Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, village elders are the backbone of administration in this country. They are actually the most neglected people in the world. They do the donkey jobs and they are never recognised in some parts of the world. I want to thank the Mover of the Motion, Mr. Wamalwa, for thinking so positively about the village elders in the country. Village elders are spread all over the country and work 24 hours. The chiefs, assistant chiefs, district commissioners and provincial commissioners normally get what the village elders have listened to. Even when it comes to matters of arbitration and fighting, people go to the village elders. The village elders do the work of the police, magistrates and every job that comes in this world. But they are never recognised. Even law courts make decisions following the judgements of the village elders. But they are never paid or recognised. Mr. Deputy Sir, it is high time that this country realises the value of people who work in this country. Even when we look at councillors, they are like the village elders. They do a lot of good work. But we do not even recognise them. Even the Minister for Local Government does not think about councillors. Instead of paying councillors from the Consolidated Fund, we do not think about them. Instead, we, the MPs, only think about ourselves. We increase our salaries, but we never think about village elders and councillors. I suggest that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government, now that we are going to introduce a Bill that will seek to promote village elders to become civil servants, should prepare a Bill that will seek to enact law to the effect that councillors in this country are also paid from the Consolidated Fund. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my new Government in 2012 will definitely recognise village elders and councillors! I beg to support the Motion."
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