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    "id": 1037769,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. May I also take this opportunity to congratulate Hon. Dennitah on this day when we are celebrating the International Day for Persons with Disability. I know she has done a great job on this and also know she is working a lot to improve things in the country. However, I will tell her that there is a lot of opportunity and I know and she is working on it. The country has done quite a bit. We have the Persons with Disability Act of 2003 and I know there is an effort now to actually review that Act. Moreover, in that Act, there are services that have been put in place that may actually need a lot of improvement. The council is in place and we have funds for the council. We have funds for persons with severe disability because when you have severe disability, two people are actually involved. The person who is severely disabled and the person who takes care of him or her. Moreover, that is something that needs to be taken into consideration. I think those can be improved. The provision of assistive devices is actually in place and I know you have a Motion that is looking into that. We can look at that. However, more importantly, is the area of access. I think in 2007 and 2008, we actually made regulations that related to access. In addition, as much as it has been done, there has been access to buildings using ramps, lifts that talk, lifts that have Braille and sign language. However, the greatest area where persons with disability need more support is in public transport. If you look at our vehicles, there is no way a person with a wheel chair can go in. There are many road networks and we had actually proposed that road networks actually have ramps. Moreover, we design the buses. We can do it. We can design buses that have floors that are flat and flush with ramps. It can be done. We had started that work. I do not know where it is. However, I think the area of access to public utilities is an area that much can be done on. Once again, may I congratulate her. I know she can do a lot more to achieve these things that the persons with disability need."
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