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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. First, I want to thank the Professor for bringing this Motion. If we debate it the way it is, we will lose it. I wish we could make some small amendments to create a small committee to work on this policy framework itself and bring proposals for a Bill in this House so that we engage stakeholders as we go round the country and come up with a solid document that is bankable. I hope that we will not just vote on it the way it is because it will be lost and we will have to bring it back after six months. I wish we could get some time to create t he amendment. Security starts at the villages. The Tanzanians got it right when they created the Ujamaa Villages. Ujamaa was opposed for many other reasons but it succeeded in terms of security. People would organize themselves in a village knowing who is in the village. They had a committee of elders and when you were a visitor, you had to report to the chief’s office, write your name and say who you are visiting and for how many days. For that reason, every village in Tanzania is secure. Our new Constitution tried to recapture this by creating governments up to the village level. Right now, counties are advertising for village administrators. They do not know what a village is. I think we can help them. If we want to put the village at the sub location level, then let us put it there. However, if you go beyond there, a definition of a"
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