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    "content": "Let us also audit the work of this Commission. If you read the Constitution, and that is the framework under which these commissions were supposed to operate, they were meant to do key human rights abuses investigations and present reports for us to feel change in the mindset and culture of people who are serving in the public sector. However, I am disappointed for I have not seen any action by the Ombudsman that has created tremor in the people who are serving in the public sector, the police force or even in the county governments. They have a mandate both at the national and county level. Two years ago, I was one of the Attorneys for the Pangani six; the Hon. Members of Parliament (MP) who were locked up in Pangani and those suspects, who were MPs were denied basic constitutional human rights. Their families could not give medicine to those MPs. This is because they were denied access by the Officer Commanding the Station (OCS). The MPs could not get access to their own attorneys, yet that is a constitutional right that they enjoy under the Constitution that we enacted in 2010. In essence, with impunity, the officer in charge disregarded and clearly abused their powers in the treatment of those hon. MPs. I was surprised that although a report in form of a complaint was lodged with the Office of the Ombudsman, to date, we have never received a report of any findings. On Saturday, the Hon. Member for Bobasi, Hon. Obiri, was having lunch at a restaurant in Upper Hill and, in a very embarrassing and unceremonious manner, he was picked by police officers, roughed up and even lost his diabetes medicine. He was carried by police officers and locked up at Central Police Station. He was driven at night to Kisii Police Station and denied bail for an offence that is bailable under the Constitution. The timing was that they arrested him on Saturday and locked him up to Monday; just to deny him bail pending his appearance in court."
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