Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 539675,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/539675/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 93,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2644,
        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
        "slug": "john-muriithi-waiganjo"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I rise in support of this Bill. This Bill, in as much as it looks very narrow or shallow, it is a very important one. It comes as a dictate of Article 47 of the Constitution. The framers of the Constitution knew that many Kenyans really suffer at the hands of what the Bill calls “administrators’’. Therefore, this Bill is coming to regulate the actions of administrators and also to give an opportunity to Kenyans who are consumers of administrative action. It seeks to give them ways and means in which they can address administrative action where the said action is adverse to them or affects their rights. Article 47 is very clear on expeditiousness, efficiency, reasonableness and procedural fairness of administrative action. More important, however, is the right and freedom of a person adversely affected by administrative action. Effect of administrative action on one’s legal rights really cuts across and also may affect constitutional and human rights. So, this is a Bill that enables this House to come up with legislation that will give full effect to such rights. Those rights, therefore, are canvassed at Part III of this Bill. Part II is on fair administrative actions actually shows how such actions must be undertaken. The interpretation part of the Bill states that the administrator will be a State organ, a natural person, or a juristic person who takes administrative action. Therefore, these are the institutions that we are looking at. Some of them could be public The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}