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    "id": 675074,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "I hope this Motion will be passed. I do not think of a single reason why any Member would oppose this Motion. After it is passed, I hope some formal process will be initiated. If that will be the case, I urge Hon. Injendi to try and get this Motion into legislation, so that we can force the Government‟s hand to begin to act in this particular regard. In my community, the village elders deal with domestic violence, land disputes and delinquency by youths like absenteeism from school, mobilisation for Government services like identification cards registration, mobilisation for voting and identification of all anti-social elements in the society. Those people do this without much formal education and other institutional support. They rely entirely on accurate local knowledge and information they provide to the administrative system. In any other country, the village elders would have been recognised, and put much higher than some of the people who are paid from the public payroll. I will not mention them. We have 151 Ligurus in Nambale Constituency, both men and women. Twenty per cent of the Ligurus are women. They deal with unique issues. One of the women said she goes around homesteads talking to women. She assists them with domestic organisation, encourages them to have vegetable gardens and to be a bit more tolerant. She also advises them how to run their families without disputes. They deal with violence prevention. I was highly impressed. We have serious problems with health issues and those women are on the forefront in working with households.They deny themselves time because their only source of income is their labour. 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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