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"speaker_name": "Malava ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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"content": "should consider coming up with an Act of Parliament that will stipulate up to what extent this Article will be implemented to get the 5 per cent."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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"content": "The other challenge that we have in the country is that when you talk of employment of persons with disabilities, there are jobs that are specific; they need someone with specific qualifications like a professor or someone with a master’s degree. We want to face the matter critically. Do we have an institution in the country that can train persons with disabilities to such levels? If they are there, how many are they? Do we have sufficient teachers in the country? This is a matter that the Committee should look into deeply. It is not as it looks at face value. We are aware that most families have persons with disabilities. However, it is a challenge for those persons to access education. The Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) is talking of integrated education in our schools, where persons with disability can also join. I am aware of families that are not willing to take their children to such schools because disability in our communities is considered a curse. Therefore, it is a challenge taking them to schools where other normal children are and, when they are taken such schools, the normal children stay away from them. So, even if we talk of employment, do persons with disabilities have the necessary qualifications for employment? The answer is no; they do not have. Do we have institutions that can train them? The answer in no. They are not there. So, Hon. Sheikh Yussuf, it is not only a matter of recommending timelines for implementation. This has got to do with the whole process of our education system."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Malulu Injendi",
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"content": "When our forces in this country – the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), the Kenya Police, the Kenya Prisons Service and the National Youth Service (NYS) – advertise for positions, they are very clear that they will not consider persons with disabilities. If, for example, you have an eye problem or one short finger, you will not be admitted into the forces. This exposes discrimination against persons with disabilities. What has losing a finger got to do with performing the functions of a KDF officer, a police officer or a prisons officer? I can see that my time is up. We have to come up with a specific law that has timelines. As we are aware, some of the public institutions do not have the infrastructure that persons with disabilities can use to access their offices comfortably. That is one of the ways that demonstrates that, as a country, we are negative and not sensitive towards persons with disabilities. I support the Motion and thank Hon. Hon. Sheikh Yussuf, the Chairperson, Departmental Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity. Thank you."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Hon. Martin Owino."
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"speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I appreciate you for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I support this Bill and say kudos to my Chair, Hon. Yussuf. The Chairman and the whole team have been very passionate at looking into issues of disabilities. In the 2019 census, 2.2 per cent of Kenyans were found to be disabled. If that is put into figures, it is 1 million. It could be more now because of the population surge. It is very interesting and saddening that 39 samples of the companies that we interrogated did not comply with the Constitution requirement. In other words, when we were looking at the status of the compliance to Article 54(2) of the Constitution regarding employment of persons with disabilities in public Institutions in terms of friendly environment, measures they have taken, their experiences and challenges, we found that they were not compliant. That is not acceptable. Disability occurs in many forms. It is a condition that limits people mentally and in movement or activity. It can occur to anybody. The irony is that, even when you are employed and you are fit as most of us are, you can still get a disability while working. Then you are scaled down and deployed without any policy guideline. For example, in the military, we have had cases of workers being stood down and deployed as receptionists and yet, they do not know how to handle phones. We are recommending policies that will make the environment that they operate in conducive and encourage training people who will handle persons with disability to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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"content": "avoid stigmatisation. We have recommended some interventions and we are asking that they be strictly implemented. One of them is strict human resource policies. There is nothing much that is tailored towards this category of people in institutions. We have also asked that the strategy for recruitment should be changed. For example, putting an advertisement in a local newspaper, in a website or using organisations of persons with disability and think that they will be alerted that there is a job advertisement, does not work. We have suggested that the offices of area Members of Parliament will be more convenient to send messages. For example, if you go to Ndhiwa Constituency, you will find a folder with all the people who are disabled with their capabilities. So, if there is a job opening, they can easily be alerted and asked to apply. We should be getting regular reports after every three months. After changing our Standing Orders, we can implement this recommendation so that we know if there are improvements on the anomalies we got during our interrogations like, employing more persons with disabilities and availing more tenders to them. Sometimes, we wait for a year to lapse and then, at the end of it all, we have nothing. Lastly, people living with disabilities are central to our social and economic development. Any discrimination on them will increase poverty and pressure not only to the person living with disability, but to their families as well. Any form of discrimination will increase poverty and pressure to the family, leave alone the person living with a disability. So, this social exclusivity should be stopped. We need to do more. We just examined 39 institutions, but there are so many companies out there that are not complying. With that, I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I hope we will continue to interrogate this issue more."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Very well. Now then, the Temporary Speaker's prerogative, Hon. Rose Museo."
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"speaker_name": "Makueni County, WDM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Rose Mumo",
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"content": " Ahsante Bwana Spika wa muda kwa kunipatia nafasi ili nichangie Ripoti hii. Namshukuru sana Mwenyekiti ambaye ameleta Ripoti kuhusu watu wenye changamoto au kwa jina lingine tunasema, walio na ulemavu. Ripoti hii imekuja kwa wakati wake. Niseme kwamba sisi kama Wakenya hatulizingatii sana jambo hili. Njia ya kuwasaidia watu wenye ulemavu imekuwa ni shida kubwa. Tunapowangalia, wanaonekana kama hawawezi. Wale wachache ambao wamesoma na kupata umahiri wa kazi wanaweza kuandikwa. Ningeomba Kamati hii iangalie sana mambo ya watoto walemavu kuanzia pale shuleni. Unapata kwamba wale ambao wamesoma ni wale ambao wametoka katika familia zilizo na uwezo. Lakini ukiwa mlemavu na umetoka katika familia ambayo haina mapato vizuri, au kuna umaskini fulani, unakuta kwamba hata wewe kwenda shule ni shida. Hata kwenda katika shule ya upili inakuwa ni shida. Kwa hivyo, wanazidi kukaa nyumbani na kukosa kazi. Sheria zipo ambazo zimetungwa na ziko ambazo zinaelekeza kwamba watu wenye ulemavu waweze kusaidika na kuandikwa kazi. Lakini unapata kwamba hatuifuatilii ipasavyo. Ingekuwa vyema kuwe na sheria inayolazimisha kila ofisi ya Serikali au isiyo ya Serikali, kuajiri mtu mmoja mlemavu. Na ulemavu si kukosa kidole pekee yake. Utakuta kwamba wanasema wameajiri mtu mlemavu ilhali huyo mtu labda ana kidole kilichokatika. Tunataka waajiri watu walemavu kabisa. Tunataka pawepo watu wanaoweza kutembelea maofisi kuangalia kama sheria hii inafuatwa. Ninapoendelea kuunga mkono Ripoti hii, ningependa kusema kwamba zamani kulikuwa na social workers au wafanyikazi wa Serikali ambao walikuwa wanatembelea nyumba za watu kuangalia watoto wenye ulemavu. Lakini jambo hili limepungua na wazazi wengi unakuta hawawapeleki watoto wao shuleni kwa sababu ya kile wanachokiita kwa Kiingereza stigma, au kwa sababu wanahofia kwamba watoto wao wanaweza kuwa na laana fulani ambayo inasababisha ulemavu. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Rose Mumo",
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"content": "Ulemavu ni jambo ambalo linahitaji kuzingatiwa sana Kenya, ili tuhakikishe kwamba walemavu wanapata nafasi. Katika ofisi yangu, nimepokea kesi nyingi za ubakaji wa watoto, na wengi wao ni walemavu. Wengi wao sasa wameanza kuingiliwa maana hawawezi kukimbia ama kufanya lotote. Walemavu wengi sasa wanakabiliwa na hatari kubwa kwa sababu hawawezi kukimbia au kujilinda. Wanaume wachokozi wanawalenga hasa watoto wa kike walemavu, na hii inahatarisha usalama wao. Tunahitaji kuhakikisha ya kwamba wanapata ulinzi unaofaa. Naunga mkono Ripoti hii na naamini kwamba jambo hili linahitaji kuangaliwa kwa dharura ili tuweze kuwasaidia wale wenye ulemavu. Mimi nilikuwa natembea vizuri lakini leo niko na ulemavu. Kwa hivyo, naelewa changamoto ya kutembea ukiwa mzima na ukiwa na ulemavu. Ni jambo ambalo lina shida sana na naomba kwamba watu waangaliwe. Pia, usajili wao uangaliwe kwa sababu wengi wanatafuta kupata kadi ya ulemavu na inakuwa shida kuipata. Kamati, nasema asanteni kwa hii Ripoti."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Hon. Francis Sigei."
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