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    "id": 1094711,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Most persons with disabilities will be locked out because most of them will not contest because of obvious reasons. In the community I come from, a person with disability is referred to as eng’oki, meaning a curse. Sometimes he or she is referred to as a hyena. How does that person contest under the background of those demeaning names? These representation and nominations are efforts to try and bring the marginalised citizens of this country at par with the rest of the citizenry. For obvious reasons, persons with disabilities, women, and some communities cannot even try to contest. The Elmolo are only 3,000 people. They can never contest for the position of MP, but courtesy of nomination, they can get representation in this House. So, I oppose. On the issue of nomination, we can borrow the example of our neighbouring country, Uganda. Even though the Deputy President was denied travel to Uganda, we can borrow from there. There is an electoral college in Uganda that elects representatives of persons with disability. That is what I propose in the BBI. Not even a comma was captured in the BBI because its proponents had their own selfish intention of massaging the egos of losers. You cannot force a loser down the throat of Kenyans simply because they have been rejected. Then 21 days after the general election you parade them and put them in positions for which Kenyans have said they are not equal to the task. If you go through the education system and score grade E because there is no grade F, you are worse than that guy who never went to school because they have not been tested. If you go through an election process and you are defeated, you are worse than that character who was not tested. Our Constitution makes it clear that it should be 45 days so that we do not include the names of losers. I am a Nominated Member. Sometimes I am at a loss. I am between a rock and a hard place. I do not know if my loyalty will be to my party or to the persons with disabilities that I represent here. That is why you see me coming here before the Speaker and leaving after the Speaker. It is because I have to represent persons with disabilities in this House. Since their issues are cross-cutting, I have to contribute to every Bill so that I know what is there for persons with disabilities. This marginalised category of people in this country would never be in this House. History will judge me harshly if I am here only courtesy of nomination or I am party to those who will cut that bridge that I used to enter this House so that no other person with disability ever enter 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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