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    "content": "THAT, the Senate notes and adopts the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the establishment of the Public Compensation Bureau laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 16th July, 2014. Madam Temporary Speaker, hon. Senators will recall that when this Motion for the establishment of a one stop Public Compensation Bureau in each county was moved in this House in July last year, it received overwhelming support from the House because of two major reasons among others. First, Senators as representatives of the people are familiar with the many cases around the country in which citizens are denied access to their rights. They are also denied access to their dues and entitlements. Such dues and entitlements include retirement benefits, court awards, compensation awarded during accidents, occasioning injuries or death to employees at their work places, awards given by courts for wrongful dismissal from jobs; which included payment of insurance claims even after determination through a proper judicial process and many other such claims. The second reason why the Motion received support from Senators was because we recognized the need to enforce the provisions of the 2010 Constitution and the Bill of Rights which prohibit ill treatment of citizens. We are all aware that we are under obligation as citizens to promote dignity, security and safety of all Kenyans at all times. Hon. Senators also appreciated that ill treatment is not only limited to physical torture and illegal detention. Indeed, any action which has the effect of subjecting citizens to physical torture, financial distress, physical strain or social deprivation constitute a serious violation of basic rights of citizens because they lead to stress and agony and disrupt families and their social life. They are often accompanied by crippling indebtedness and long term misery. Madam Temporary Speaker, hon. Senators will also recall that even before the formation of this ad hoc Committee to address this very important matter, there were numerous stories highlighted in the media of individuals who were denied access to their benefits and were compelled to travel long distances to seek justice through the office of the Commissioner for Administrative Justice generally referred to as the"
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