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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mukwe",
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        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to congratulate Hon. Injendi for bringing this Motion. What we are discussing is important. In some areas, we have physically handicapped children whose mothers hide in their houses. The people who get information and report are village elders. Sometimes those village elders get some lost children and take them to their homes before the report is taken to police. Those people are working day and night without any pay. During the campaign against polio, tuberculosis and measles, those are the people who direct the nurses to carry out the exercise. They are working on empty stomachs and cover long distances without any pay. Those are the people who unite people when there are differences like a quarrel between a wife and a husband. Those are the people who normally go there first to unite them or to bring them together so that the case is settled. Some petty cases are not taken to court because those are the people who go and unite people. They bring peace to quarrelling families. They know the boundaries. They are the ones who also accompany the Nyumba Kumi people to keep peace in our areas. However, when it comes to payment, they are not paid. So, it is good for them to be paid so that they feel they are Kenyans. A Kenyan who is working on an empty stomach without pay cannot feel good because his children must go to school. If they are sick, they must be taken to hospital. They must eat and dress. However, when it comes to payment, they must get paid. Chiefs have offices, but those have none. They go around gathering information to be taken to the assistant chiefs or chiefs. Chiefs are paid while those people are not. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, during public barazas, those are the people who prepare sitting arrangements and are never paid. The chiefs who are paid arrive in their offices to get information from the village elders. When it comes to identification cards, they are the people who vet youths because they know them in the villages. They are the people who normally identify youths who get identification cards. They do so without pay and on empty stomachs. It is high time those people are paid as it was suggested by Hon. Injendi. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, they also identify projects in various areas. That is because when projects are identified by village elders, it will be very easy for them to be taken to the Location Development Committee for funding. Since Independence, they have been working for the Government. They are informers of the assistant chiefs and chiefs, but they are not paid. With those few remarks, I wish to congratulate Hon. Injendi. I support the Motion. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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