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    "content": "to migrate with cows to look for pasture. The youth can easily go by force, but when the elders are involved; this issue is brought to a stop. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in some communities, for you to vie for the Senate seat or the National Assembly seat, you have to get the blessings of elders. I am talking about tapping into this idea that existed before and using it positively to manage and man our affairs on the ground, at the village level by pulling people together. So far, we have 8,300 sub locations and an average of 10 village elders who must be vetted by people. I know that we have some who have terrorized other people by being very demanding when problems arise. They take a lot of fines in terms of goats and cows. If this Motion is passed, we will have vetted elders to work with us in the villages. We have a staggering 83,000 village elders or thereabout in the whole Republic. I propose that we establish a Fund to provide for monthly allowances and not salaries or stipends. With as little as Kshs24,000 per year per village elder, at a rate of Kshs2,000 sitting allowance per month, we can address this issue. I do not want to call this a salary because some people will misunderstand me. These people are not educated. They may be asked to present their curriculum vitaes to see up to what level the village elders are educated. I read the Transition Authority Act recently where it says if you have to employ a village administrator, that person must have a degree. A village administrator must have a degree and I was wondering where we are heading with our degrees. Degrees are babies that cannot manage people. If they cannot manage people, then you must have wisdom and age. You should have raised a family and people must know you. You must have a testimony and have a background of speaking in forums during meetings. If we operate like that, we will only require approximately Kshs1.99 billion which is just about Kshs2 billion for a whole year. With regard to the problem we are talking about, we can assign them as many roles as we think are necessary depending on where they come from. If an elder is from Eastleigh, he must be given more roles than others. His role should be to know who is new in that area. He should make a report to the national Government about a stranger in his area. Sen. Obure is here. At one time, he was the Minister for Public Works. Another time, he was the Minister for Roads. He can attest to it that a lot of wastage of funds, in the course of a contract, is realized when there are delays in awarding local or international tenders. We hear that we lose a lot of money or approximately Kshs200 billion through procurement process. There is a time when the former Permanent Secretary, Joseph Kinyua, talked about it. These were huge losses. So, if we are talking about losses in the minimum range of Kshs2 billion per year, this money is enough to give a token of appreciation to village elders to buy some soap, sugar and live decent lives. How much have we set aside for security matters this year? We have set aside billions. For the National Intelligence Service (NIS), we have also set aside billions of shillings. We return a lot of money to the Treasury unused. We have also set aside over Kshs140 billion to run commissions generated and created by us. A sum of Kshs2 billion is very little money to this Government. We need to use this money to give some token of appreciation to people who are 65 years and above. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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