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    "id": 922652,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to make my contributions to this Bill by our colleague Sen. Were. This is a wonderful Bill and I support it. Any endeavour by parliamentarians or whoever, to advance the course of justice in our country should be supported by all men of good intent and purpose in life. This Bill endeavours to see citizens accessing justice at the lowest level. The history of an Ombudsman comes from medieval times. Ombudsmen were referred to as secret royal inspectors. These were people who were sent out by the King to oversee the performance of government officials. They were supposed to carry out their services incognito; nobody would recognize what they were doing. For example, they would go to a public hospital or institutions, dressed like normal citizens to assess how members of the public were being served. If the services were found to be wanting, the Ombudsmen or secret royal inspectors would report back to the King. They would say that they visited this and that Government institution and found that people were complaining about the way services were being offered to them. Borrowing closely from that, many countries have enacted laws setting up the office of Ombudsman. People go to this when they want their government to address administrative issues. We, as Senators, will always support any idea of taking services closer to our people. We should ensure that there is no undue advantage that a citizen of this country gains from being born in Nairobi City County or any county within the close proximity of Nairobi. On many occasions, we have brought to this House through Petitions, pertinent issues affecting members of the public when we feel they are not able to get services because of not being closer to Nairobi City. We should endeavor as a House to ensure that if there are any critical Government services that, to date, have not been devolved to each of our 47 counties, they be devolved immediately. I brought the Statement on issuance of passports in Nairobi. In this country, we still have centralized services regardless of the provisions of the new Constitution. It is a pity that nine years down the line, we are still insisting on using a few of the former provincial headquarters to be the issuance centres of passports. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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