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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, where a proper court with due jurisdiction has made a determination and the award is never settled or never paid, these are the kind of claims that we expect the bureaus at each of our 47 counties to deal with. They should help citizens with the view to ensuring that those claims are paid. Madam Temporary Speaker, having highlighted some of the key features of the Bill, I want to emphasise that the Draft Bill then proceeds to establish the compensation bureaus in each county. The Bill is proposing that the bureaus will be made of membership from various sectors. The Chairperson of the Commission on Administrative Justice or his representative will be the Chairperson. Then one person nominated by the Governor of the County shall be the Deputy Chairperson. One person nominated by the County Assembly Service Board. We are also proposing that the leader of majority party or coalition of parties in the county assembly becomes a member of that bureau. The leader of the minority party or the coalition of parties in the county assembly also becomes a member. The Chairperson of the Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation in the county will sit in this Committee because this group of people is greatly affected by being denied their benefits. Then we have one representative of the Central Organisation of Trade Union (COTU) because their membership is greatly affected at their work places, one public officer nominated by the Attorney-General, one representative of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and two persons of either gender, nominated by the bureau to represent persons living with disabilities. The Secretary of the County Service Board will also be a member; he or she will be the chief executive officer of the bureau and the secretary to the bureau but will not have any voting right. He or she will simply provide secretarial services. We have also outlined the functions of the bureau. They are many but very precise. We have provided for offences and there are various sanctions which we have proposed. The idea is to ensure that claims are speedily dealt with and paid when they fall due. We have also looked at the functions of the Commission on Administrative Justice and the Committee felt very strongly that the services of the Ombudsman should be devolved to the counties. This was considered to be of paramount importance as the cost of travel to Nairobi to seek justice has become prohibitive. The Committee further recommends in this report that the Commission on Administrative Justice whose mandate is wide and critical for the realization of justice for all Kenyans be allocated more resources to enable it to spread its services to all the counties. Additional resources will in no doubt strengthen the Commission and enable it to discharge its mandate more effectively. Madam speaker, I take this opportunity to thank Members of the ad hoc Committee for their useful and invaluable contribution. We are also grateful for the technical and logistical support we obtained from the Clerk of the Senate and in particular the directors of committee and legal services. Finally, I thank Mr. Speaker for extending the time of the ad hoc Committee to enable it to exhaustively consider all the weighty matters before it. The Committee is pleased to have completed this assignment on the basis of its mandate. Hon Senators are requested to familiarize themselves with the Bill. We look forward to the day when the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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