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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. It is important, especially, for this nation. I support this Motion with a number of reasons. The Office of the Ombudsman, in my view, works as the watchdog for justice and fairness. Sometimes you would want to know how justice was delivered. There are times when justice is perverted. This office being a watchdog, I am looking at its core values. The core values look at issues of fairness. A case in point on the issue of fairness is a situation where someone goes to the office and all of a sudden just realizes that he or she has been laid off. He or she does not have a job anymore. I remember there was a time I was reading a newspaper where a lady was really crying. She was laid off without any notice. She is a mother and has children who go to school. That was very unfair. Sometimes it happens that people lose jobs without any grounds. So the issue of fairness is important especially for workers. At times people’s land is grabbed and that is unfair. One of the core values of the Office of the Ombudsman is to see that there is fairness in everything. If land has been grabbed, the Office of the Ombudsman will try to see that the issue is solved. Another thing that makes me feel that the Office of the Ombudsman is a watchdog of justice and fairness is that it is concerned about accountability. When you talk of accountability, we are looking at a situation where civil servants are in office and they have to account for what they do. When someone occupies a public office, they have 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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