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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Clause 9 talks about accountability which we have always been talking about. It is high time we put serious penalties on people who refuse to be accountable, those who do not give accounting information or those who do not answer to the right institutions when they are asked to. I also believe in Clause 10 which talks about employment, that employment in most of the areas is based on nepotism. They employ either their brothers, sisters, cousins, tribesmen or their political cronies. This law will talk to those people and tell them that it is time people are employed based on merit, qualifications and matters to do with competition so that people do not just get employed. I can imagine a situation where instead of people getting employed based on merit or qualification, they are employed because they are somebody’s friends. This law will cure that situation which we have actually seen. This Bill will also address the concerns of the marginalised groups like women, people with disabilities and the Ogieks who have been having a lot of employment problems in this country including getting elected to this House. This law will cure such cases so that anybody who employs people without looking at these values will have to face the law. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will end by looking at Clause 14 on complaints. People take complaints to the police or to the Deputy County Commissioner’s office or to the Ombudsman, but nobody takes care of those complaints. This law cures that problem. I support it because I know that from today if somebody were to take a complaint to the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development or any of the Lands officers, they will begin having somewhere where those issues can be articulated. Thank you very much. I support this Bill."
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