Maina Kiai
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"Maina Kiai" is a lawyer and Kenyan human rights activist who currently serves as the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association/United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. He took up his functions as Special Rapporteur on May 1, 2011, for an initial period of three years; he is currently serving his second three-year term.

Kiai is also active in human rights work in Kenya, where he has focused on combating corruption, supporting political reform, and fighting against impunity following 2007-08 Kenyan crisis/post-election violence that engulfed Kenya in 2008.

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It's been about ethnicity and political payback, not the constitution.

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There has been a complete lack of political will, a total lack of commitment on the part of the government to uproot graft in this country. The people who were implicated in major corruption scandals are still key personalities in high-level civil service. Nothing is new. These people are still in office. They have not been touched.

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The removal of this office is a strong statement about the government's lack of commitment to fight graft in Kenya.

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The ministry can affect our independence through delayed disbursements or reallocation of the budget.

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In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation, those implicated should step aside while the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) investigates the allegations against them.

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The problem we have in Kenya - which is not a new problem - is that of impunity. People are rarely held accountable for their actions, enabling grand corruption to persist.

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The Head of the Civil Service should stop the use of private plates because ministers and other Government officials use the privilege to cover up abuse.

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The part that's annoying is that they've come in on a platform of change, but they have shown the same extravagance, the same disrespect of the people as the previous regime.

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No one is saying they are guilty, but they cannot be sitting in public offices when these offices are being investigated.

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