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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I was explaining that under The Fair Administrative Act and Access to Information Act, the Kenyan public is entitled to access to information on anything within the public view or any entity. Under The Fair Administrative Act, when you request for that information, it is supposed to be given to you, but the question is: Who checks in the county if one gets the information that they have requested for from the Government functionaries? Nobody does that. I would support this with all my heart for when the Government issued an order for children to be registered and have birth certificates, the chiefs were requested to issue orders or letters and some chiefs were asking for Kshs500 or even Kshs1,000. This is because there is a practice that our mothers do not get notification of birth when they get children outside the system that is at home. This is what is called impunity. Our Identification Cards (IDs) are given to us for free. Why do we charge mothers of this country for birth certificates? I am still waiting for the logic. I have not heard the logic behind acquiring birth certificates upon a charge and yet when you are 18 years old, you are not charged for your ID. Who are you charging? Are you charging the children of this country for birth certificates? Who is supposed to complain? You are punishing the minor and not the mother for this is a charge to the child. The office of the Ombudsman is one of those methods that will help us ensure that we have some element of oversight. We, as Senators, can do oversight. I have a sub-chief who is licensing one bar and denying the other and a chief who is also running a bar competing with four others. I would like to tell Sen. Were, that if there is something that we should support, this is it. The checking of public servants should be at all levels. This should also be an opportunity for the public to report. There is a chief in Nakuru who is on Twitter. When something is missing in Nakuru, he tweets about it. Whenever a child goes missing, he also tweets about it. I have a girl who was going to Siakago when the schools opened and she is now in Line Saba in Kibera and we cannot find her. However, if we had a chief like the one in Nakuru, he would have reported through Twitter that there is a girl who did not go to school in Siakago and she is with some old man in Line Saba or Silanga in Kibera. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Ombudsman should not be an office for purposes of only reporting bad things. It should be for people who have done well. The people who 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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