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    "content": "not available. By dint of this law, those entities will be bound to disclose the details of the persons who compose the youth. From some of the petitions we are dealing with in the Senate, we know that there are what we call phantoms of companies created. They claim to give the youth affirmative action yet they are just surrogates of Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and particularly our governors. I want to tell them that on signing of this Bill, the old will be gone, the new will come and they will be exposed. It will be like hanging your clothes out there for everybody to see. Therefore, this Bill will also implement part of Article 201 of the Constitution on accountability. While we demand the right of accountability, that right cannot be granted unless the information is available. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a point to note. The term of the Commission on Administrative Justice, otherwise known as Office of the Ombudsman, will end sometime next year. Under this Bill, it is contemplated that the Commission on Administrative Justice, under Sections 54 and 55, would transit to the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC). By the time this Bill comes back for Third Reading, we would have provided the Committee on Information and Technology a method of transition, so that we do not have a gap by the time the Ombudsman exits and the KHRC enters. Ideally, it is important to note that the public and our agencies must understand that the Commission on Administrative Justice is the enforcer where you refuse to disclose information. Otherwise, this law will grant a direct access to information to the citizens upon request. The Commission will come in to enforce or review decisions of any person who does not do so. It will most likely provide sanctions to public officers who violate this law at the first instance even before a person can go to court. That is the only way we can ensure that the system of going to court or litigation does not in itself create an inhibition to the right to access information because we know that our court system can somehow, for some strange reasons, be a letdown in terms of how we determine these issues. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Part Four is about conferment on the commission, oversight, enforcement of functions and various other methods of when you get the information, who will give you the information, penalties, reporting and other laws that will need to be amended such as The Statutory Instruments Act and The Interpretation and General Provisions Act. Whereas Article 2(5) states that international law shall form part of the law of Kenya, the change of rules of international law are specified. Article 2(6) of the Constitution states that any treaty and conventions ratified by Kenya shall form part of the law of Kenya."
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