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    "id": 937827,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "arrest people on civil issues, they should refer those cases to the elders. If the elders sort them out, that will be good for that community, because no one will feel offended. Sometimes the systems we have in the place make cases so skewed because of the police practices of who has given what. Other people end up losing what is duly theirs because they did not deal with the police the way the other person dealt with them. This is unlike when you are dealing with elders or people you know, where you will present your case and justice will be served without usurping someone else’s right because you know your way round the courts. I hope that the other Members will support this Bill so that we have a system which will institutionalize our traditional systems of dispute resolutions. This is so that we do not necessarily suffer going to courts, which illiterate people do not understand how they operate. Some of them lose their own rights because they could not defend themselves, or could not afford to hire a lawyer; or the lawyer could not understand their traditional systems of why they behaved in a certain manner. Some of these people end up losing what is rightfully theirs, because those who made the laws did not provide them with the necessary laws which are friendly to the users. However, in this case, you can comfortably defend your case in front of the mediators or elders, whom you know; and coming from that community, they understand how the systems work. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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