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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The key to governance is involvement and participation of people who are governed. In any situation, it is often impossible to involve everyone particularly from the communities we come from. Therefore, we must use people’s representatives who are either elected like us or those who are naturally recognised by the communities as their leaders. This is where the village elders fall. Everywhere, village elders are recognised by communities as their leaders. They are invaluable in solving community problems. Often, they are the first port of call, whether it is marriage, property or boundary disputes. Often, they do a tremendous job and many times, it may end there or is forwarded to the assistant chief or chief. On issues security they are invaluable because they understand the community and the people involved and sometimes, they can prevent occurrences of security nature. Often, they are people who help us to propagate Government policies and even implementation, like when 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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