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    "content": "have worked in Government like Sen. (Prof.) Kamar will tell you that most of the people who receive promotions are because they either speak the right dialect or mother tongue or that they have a relative or a godfather. It is not because they perform. We should therefore promote the idea of reporting for people who work well so that for once, promotions are based on merit. That chief in Nakuru County should not only get a promotion but should be rewarded for doing a good job. There is also a traffic police officer in Sultan Hamud when there were floods there, he wore gumboots and stood in the middle of the water to ensure people did not go there. The Inspector General of Police issued a note to him telling him that he did a good job but that is not the way to deal with public service under the principle of Article 232 of the Constitution to say that you have rewarded that person. Madam Temporary Speaker, when the President was rewarding some people recently, the Githeri man and others, we asked why that gentleman was given a commendation by the President and not the people who work. If we promote a good public service, from the county to the national level, then this is something that we should support. We support this by insisting that it must be funded. We keep saying that the Auditor-General’s Office should be devolved to the 47 counties for purposes of audit. However, we do not say that the Office of the Ombudsman should also be devolved. The Ombudsman who left that office, hon. Otiende Amollo, truly showed us how an office should operate. By the time he left that office, it was truly an Ombudsman Office. Nobody raised an issue about the procurement process there or a meeting which he attended when he should not have. In the principles of public service as Sen. Were has proposed, if we are going to have an Ombudsman, one of the things that we should say is that we should put men and women of good moral character and integrity. Sen. (Dr.) Zani and I were arguing this afternoon over lunch that truly speaking, when we insist that we must put people in office by merit, it is absolute lip service. I know that we have done things that are wrong even here in the Senate. However, allow me to say that if you want to have a true Ombudsman, he or she must be a person who is prepared for a lifestyle audit, declare how many wives you have and the number of cars that you own. If we are going to check impunity and corruption, you must truly be above reproach like Caesar's wife. Otherwise, this will be an avenue like what the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has done in some cases when they use their powers and privileges to investigate corruption to punish and use witch-hunt for people who are otherwise not guilty of corruption. I beg to support. Thank you."
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