{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153119","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=153117","results":[{"id":1549372,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549372/?format=json","text_counter":88,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Wambua, you have three minutes."},{"id":1549373,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549373/?format=json","text_counter":89,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wambua","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13199,"legal_name":"Enoch Kiio Wambua","slug":"enoch-kiio-wambua"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to also make comments on the Statement brought by the Senator for Taita-Taveta on the schemes of service for chiefs and assistant Chiefs. The service provided by these administrators at the local level is so crucial that an assistant chief plays the roles of a judge, family counsellors, administrators and arbitrators. So, the services that they offer are so critical that there is need for a proper scheme of service, complete with clarity on career progression path, such that, someone can begin as a village elder or assistant chief, and aspire to go through the administrative ladder and one day become a regional commissioner. That progression must be so clear that the people that grow in the system are people who understand how the system works. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."},{"id":1549374,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549374/?format=json","text_counter":90,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wambua","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13199,"legal_name":"Enoch Kiio Wambua","slug":"enoch-kiio-wambua"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not agree with Sen. Cherarkey on a lot of things, but I agree with him on the issue that he has brought to the Floor about village elders. Let us not even make the service of village elders too academic or elitist. Why do you need a university degree to be able to resolve small village issues? The best qualification for a village elder is a person who is mature enough to understand the challenges of the village and who is known within the village, who knows the boundaries of the village, relationships within the families of the village and the culture of the village. We should not make these things too academic. Otherwise, we are going to have a situation where we shall say that the people who work in our farms must have degrees in agriculture. Let us be realistic. Where the rubber meets the road in the villages, let us have mature men and women who can arbitrate on issues, people who understand the issues in their villages. I support."},{"id":1549375,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549375/?format=json","text_counter":91,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Boni, please proceed."},{"id":1549376,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549376/?format=json","text_counter":92,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":170,"legal_name":"Bonny Khalwale","slug":"bonny-khalwale"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow me to laud the Senator of Taita-Taveta County. The issue of the role of chiefs is truly misunderstood. Chiefs and assistant chiefs are important; you do not have to ask. The moment you enter Magarini and meet an assistant chief, their discipline, demeanour and grasp of local issues is always congruent to what I find in Lwakhakha in Bungoma. What is lacking is the national appreciation of their work. Mr. Speaker, Sir, look at the critical area of alternative resolution of disputes. Chiefs and assistant chiefs are the only ones who are not corrupt in that court. They are able to preside over serious issues, including land issues, and they settle those cases amicably, without having to be corrupted. However, allowed to go through the normal legal process, families will spend years without end, waste hundreds of thousands of shillings, and no resolution of the dispute will come. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to add that we should have clear distinction between the key issues of the court, the chiefs and their roles, and the new-look police stations. There are now so many police stations in the villages. So, the police will ask the assistant chief to go and arrest criminals. The chiefs and assistant chiefs risk their lives because some of these criminals are violent people. When they hand them over at the police station, at the police station, the Officer Commanding Station (OCS) creates a kangaroo court and releases the same criminals. The criminals go back to the village and attack the assistant chief and the chief. We need to protect these people, and this protection should appreciate that they also need medical cover. Mr. Speaker, Sir, our chiefs require to be trained and formally armed with firearms for their own protection and their facilitation to carry out their duties. Finally, most governors across the country have created a parallel administrative unit. Some call it village administrators. Whatever they call them, we need to harmonize between the two levels of Government, so that there is no clashing. Sometimes you go to public functions and hear the chief being contradicted by the community area administrator from a county government. I support this important Statement."},{"id":1549377,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549377/?format=json","text_counter":93,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Faki, kindly proceed for three minutes. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."},{"id":1549378,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549378/?format=json","text_counter":94,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Faki","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13211,"legal_name":"Mohamed Faki Mwinyihaji","slug":"mohamed-faki-mwinyihaji-2"},"content":"Asante, Mhe. Spika, kwa kunipa fursa hii kuchangia kauli iliyoletwa na Sen. Mwaruma. Kazi inayofanywa na machifu na wazee wa mitaa ni muhimu sana katika nchi yetu. Kwa hakika, wanafanya kazi ngumu. Kwa mfano, katika Kaunti ya Mombasa, kuna mzee wa mtaa alipigwa risasi na kuuliwa na majambazi ambao walikuwa wanahusiana na ugaidi, yaani Al Shaabab . Familia iliondoka patupu. Mambo ambayo yanapelekwa kwa polisi na kufika mahakamani yanachukua muda mrefu kutatuliwa kuliko yale ambayo yanazungumziwa kwa chifu na kupitia kwa wazee ambao wanakaa kwa chifu, hususan maswala ya kijamii kama vile ugomvi katika ya bibi na bwana nyumbani. Kwa hivyo, Mhe. Spika, hawa ni watu muhimu sana. Hivi sasa, kwa sababu ya ukosefu wa kazi, baadhi ya machifu ambao wanaajiriwa wamefika mpaka chuo kikuu na wana shahada ya digri katika masomo na taaluma mbali mbali ambazo wamesomea. Walakini, kwa sababu ya ukosefu wa kazi, wanaendelea kufanya kazi ya chifu. Kwa hivyo, ni muhimu sana kwa jamii kuwatambua hawa watu na umuhimu wao katika jamii. Mhe. Spika, zamani hata wanafunzi wa university walipokuwa wanafukuzwa lazima wangeripoti kwa chifu. Ijapokuwa chifu hakusoma, ilikuwa lazima uripoti kwake ili uone ile authority ama umuhimu wa kazi ya chifu. Kwa hivyo, ni lazima terms za kazi za watu hawa ziboreshwe ili wanapofanya kazi na majukumu ambayo wamepewa wayafanye kwa kuzingatia kwamba kazi yao inatumbulika. Juzi, Waziri Murkomen alitoa agizo kwamba, iwapo kutapatikana pombe haramu katika eneo fulani, chifu wa hiyo eneo atapoteza kazi. Hiyo sio njia ya kuwashajaisha machifu kufanya kazi. Wanafanya kazi muhimu na kazi yao ni lazima itambuliwe na vile vile, waweze kulipwa mshahara ambao utazingatia zile kazi na changamoto wanazozipata katika kazi zao. Asante."},{"id":1549379,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549379/?format=json","text_counter":95,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Nderitu, please proceed."},{"id":1549380,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549380/?format=json","text_counter":96,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Kinyua","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13202,"legal_name":"John Kinyua Nderitu","slug":"john-kinyua-nderitu-2"},"content":"Asante Mhe. Spika, kwa kunipa fursa hii kuchangia kauli iliyoletwa na Sen. Jones Mwaruma. Ni vizuri ijulikane wazi kwamba machifu na manaibu wao wana kazi muhimu wanayofanya. Ikumbukwe kwamba, hawa manaibu wa chifu ndio wanashughulikia mambo ya usalama pamoja na wazee wa mitaa. Kwa mfano, ukitembea Kaunti ya Laikipia, utapata machifu wengi ndio wanahusika sana na mambo ya usalama. Kwa mfano, katika eneo la Doldol, kumeuwa chifu kwa sababu yeye ndio anahusika. Ngómbe wanapoibiwa, wao ndio wako katika mstari wa mbele kufuata. Kwa hivyo, wanapaswa kushughulikiwa. Unapata chifu anatumia pikipiki yake ambayo hajapewa na serikali na mafuta yake. Chifu anatumia pesa zake na hawezi kupewa fidia na serikali. Kwa hivyo, kauli hii imeletwa na imesema ya kwamba kuongezwa kwa mamlaka ama madaraka haifuati kiwango cha masomo waliyonayo. Wengi wao, ambao ni manaibu chifu, waliajiriwa wakiwa ni naibu chifu na atastaafu akiwa naibu chifu. Hawezi kufika kiwango kingine."},{"id":1549381,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1549381/?format=json","text_counter":97,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Kinyua","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13202,"legal_name":"John Kinyua Nderitu","slug":"john-kinyua-nderitu-2"},"content":"Ni vizuri kuangaliwe kazi anayofanya. Kitambo kidogo, manaibu wa chifu na chifu walikuwa wanapewa askari ambao wangetumia iwapo wangetaka kufuata wezi na wagema wanaotengeneza pombe. Lakini wakati huu, chifu hana mlinzi yeyote. Yeye ni The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."}]}