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    "id": 798754,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I might be mistaken. I rise to support the Motion by Sen. Were. This is one of those very timely issues that we have not tackled. I must confess that it is only that we do not follow up the things that we do, as a Senate. I had the privilege in the last term to travel to the Republic of Germany to a state called Kemnitz. It is one of those states that were attacked during the World War and it was completely obliterated. During our visit, we managed to meet the Ombudsman in Kemnitiz. That office is where public service is checked. This gentleman is like a judge, police officer, prison officer and he is feared and revered. Public officers shake in their boots at the thought that they can be reported to the Ombudsman. That is how powerful this office is. These are the ideals on principles of public service that are rarely enforced in Article 232 of the Constitution, which we rarely speak about. The Committee of Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights did a Bill on Principles of Public Values under Article 232 in the last Senate. It was the only Bill under the Fair Administrative Act that was not amended by the National Assembly. It says that you recognize public officers who do a good job and punish those who do not work or violate their offices. Currently, they are rarely recognized. With the advent of devolution and the creation of governments, both the national and county, we have cases where people, even ward administrators, harass Kenyans. Chiefs and sub chiefs are taking peoples’ wives and stealing public property by becoming administrators of an estate and dividing property amongst families. I have many cases of this nature. Who is supposed to check these people? It is the Ombudsman to tell them that they have no mandate to determine an estate of a late person. He or she is to tell them that they have no mandate to determine that this is the wife or not the wife of the deceased. He is to also tell them that they have no mandate to call meetings at night or determine marriage disputes. In a case that I know, one chief ended up marrying the person who went to him to solve a dispute. This is how serious this matter is. 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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