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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to congratulate my brother and neighbour, Mhe. Murugara, even though we are fighting over boundaries. However, I join others in supporting this Motion on village elders. It is true that in 2016 we passed in this Parliament what we are supposed to give elders. Prior to that, in the year 2014, I spoke to my Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) and I was going to make the village elders from the sub-areas some uniforms. However, I was informed that the Government will be doing something about it. Some of my colleagues have said that county governments have got village elders, but I think those are different from what we have. These ones will be under the national Government. If they were to be given stipends, then that has to come from the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government in the same way it is done for chiefs and assistant chiefs. The village elders will be one rank below the assistant chiefs. In all the places in this country, people know how important a village elder is. They are present all the time. Not all of them are old. In my constituency, there are about 40 to 50 who are under the age of 35 or less than 40 years and they are still elders because the people around them in the villages they serve believe those are the people who will forward their issues to the Government and they work day in, day out without expecting anything in return. The least we could probably do is to give them uniforms and some money so that they can move from one place to another to do the good work they do. In fact, we will need them mostly during the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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