{"id":675051,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/675051/?format=json","text_counter":162,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kobado","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2964,"legal_name":"John Owuor Onyango Kobado","slug":"john-owuor-onyango-kobado"},"content":"citizens. Already, those people are performing what we simply need to appreciate. You may be aware that public participation is a constitutional requirement in this country. Whenever there is an intervention or an initiative or a project to be undertaken, you have to involve the public. The people to help us reach the public are the village elders. They are performing a very critical role in the development of the social fabric of this country. You realize that village elders have been very instrumental in identifying the beneficiaries of cash transfers. Those people have been very instrumental when it comes to identifying beneficiaries for bursaries and other projects that we have been undertaking as Members of Parliament. Most of those people have served the society for a long time. Sometimes, we get people from the society, in terms of human resource, who are used and returned to the society in very bad shape. It is important that the people we get from the society as human resource are returned to the society in a better shape. There is need to appreciate and utilize those people so that we can boost their morale through the token that we are proposing."}