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    "id": 892444,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi",
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    "content": " Hon. George Murugara, yes. I am sorry. Everybody in the village knows the village elders. These are the people who know everybody in the village, including ourselves. They know those who are law abiding, those who are criminals and those who are drunkards. They oversee peace and security in the villages. They are also judges. They mobilise and get first-hand information, like in Turkana where people are dying of hunger. These are the people who give us information. To do all this, they must be facilitated, even with mobility; they must command respect. Unfortunately, they earn nothing. There are no regulations; there are no policies to guard them. I have received delegations in my home of these people complaining that they have nothing. They look poor. They have no clothes. They are dirty. If you look like that, you do not command respect; you cannot be respected as a judge. In some instances, even families are broken. Wives have left their husbands because they do not understand how somebody can work for nothing. The Government has been using them like slaves. We know slavery is illegal. Therefore, these people must be compensated. There must be a policy on how they are going to be compensated. They need to be mobile; they need to move from point A to point B. They need to feed. They need to clothe. They also need uniforms. The Government must, therefore, come up with policies to guide this process and facilitate payment of honorarium or allowances or salaries to them. I hope this House will not be a talk shop for this Motion. Therefore, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
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