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    "id": 892203,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/892203/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I thank the Member who has moved this very important Motion. From the outset, I second the Motion because it is a Motion whose time has come. The country, by using the Nyumba Kumi elders without paying them or recognising them is a type of modern-day slavery. These elders, apart from being senior citizens, take roles that sometimes border on miracles especially when there are conflicts like divorce. I do not know how miraculously they work and bring people together. They are the same people that we use, through the Provincial Administration, when it comes to matters of security because they know every individual in particular villages. It is only noble for us not to urge, but to demand that the Government pays them something and recognises them. It is so simple to remunerate these people. We have many Government projects happening at the village level and the people we send to supervise these projects use a lot of money in terms of allowances and per diems . This money can be given to the village elders instead of officers going from Nairobi to monitor some projects and funds that the national Government gives to the people. I have in mind funds like the cash transfer funds, which we need to monitor on almost weekly basis. We need to know the status of the cash transfer funds to the elderly, persons with severe disability, orphans and vulnerable children. We need to know the economic status of those who are benefitting from the funds. If their economic status has changed, then they can be removed from the list and those who have lost their lives can also be removed from the list. If we have to pay people from Nairobi to go to Loiyangalani in Marsabit or to go to Mpeketoni to find out whose economic status has changed to be removed from the cash transfer programme, we spend a lot of money. If we have to send people all the way to Bondo to go and find out how many beneficiaries of the cash transfer programme have died, so that we can replace them…"
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