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    "id": 1034447,
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    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": "I also happen to have lived with disability temporarily for close to half a year as a result of a bandit attack. So, I fully appreciate the extent to which assistive devices can make a difference when you are in such a situation. Unlike Hon. Mbui, it happened to me when I was single. I was not married. I had no partner to support me with some basic personal issues and it was really challenging. Article 54 of our Constitution addresses the rights of persons living with disability. We are required to treat them with dignity and respect. There is also requirement that they be facilitated to access education and other facilities. Unfortunately, as a result of these assistive devices not being easily accessible to persons with disability, especially children who are living with disabilities across the country, many of the children are not able to access basic rights like basic education. I am talking of a region like the one I represent, which is an Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL). Isiolo North is a very expansive constituency and it is also ASAL. Most of the times when children are born with disabilities, they are actually hidden from the public. They are seen to be some form of curse, but the few who have been able to access support, mostly through religious agencies, have proven themselves and they have also proven that disability is not inability. They have actually proven that they are enabled differently. That is why I support this particular Motion. In my culture, it is normally said that you can escape, at birth, disability which is congenital. However, nobody is sure of continuing to live as an able-bodied person. An accident can happen at any time. Indeed, through accidents, many individuals born able-bodied have ended up being disabled! For that reason, even those of us who at the moment may not need these assistive devices, need to be very cautious. As representatives of the people, we know that a huge population of our country, close to 6.5 million Kenyans, is living with one form or another of disability. These people need different types of assistive devices. It is quite in order and it is also in line with our current Constitution - I am sure it has also been enhanced through the BBI proposals - that the Government should be called upon to provide assistive devices at the lowest administrative unit possible. There is talk about availing them at the constituency level. For a constituency like North Horr, which is 38,000 square kilometres, if you avail the assistive devices at, say, the sub-county headquarters, then it becomes a challenge. In my constituency I have two sub-counties. It is close to 15,000 square 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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