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    "id": 1143837,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "I heard something to do with affordable housing. We should start with housing police officers. They are paid peanuts. You can imagine somebody you have paid peanuts... We keep saying that we lose Kshs2billion a day to corruption yet we send the same officers to go and collect the proceeds of corruption. What will happen? They will be bribed. They are being bribed because the Government has refused to pay them well. We have concentrated so much on junior police officers. The fish starts rotting from the head. We also need to know the mental status of the senior people in the leadership of the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, starting from the Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary, Inspector-General and all those directors. I have some little information that Dr. Matiang’i was sacked from lecturing in a certain university by Prof. Magoha. They never gave us a reason why he was sacked. We do not know. So we also need to know the mental status of such people who are heading such Ministries because it is too risky for us. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am getting tired of the appointments passing through this House because there is no representation of persons with disabilities (PWD). Prof. Oundo has said that sometimes it is pre-determined and that all the other channels are just a conduit for rubberstamping. Article 54 (2) of our Constitution is expressive in terms of appointive and nominative positions. There must be five per cent representation of PWD. For the past three years, we have not vetted a PWD in this House. That means, ever since some of us were kicked out of the mainstream Government; since we became opposition inside Government, we have seen a trend where it has been difficult to see any PWD passing through the vetting process. I respect Hon. Ndirangu together with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning. Hon. Ndirangu is a ranking Member of this House. If you must know, Hon. Ndirangu is the MP for Royal Suburb. Some of you call it Roysambu but it is called Royal Suburb. He is a respected person. Nonetheless we need to have PWD being given positions as demanded by our Constitution in Article 54 (2), as required by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) which Kenya ratified in 2008 and as required by Persons with Disability Act of Parliament of 2003, Session Paper No. 14. I cannot keep quiet because the last time I saw a PWD being vetted in this House was when we had judges being vetted. They included Hon. Laibuta and others like the visually impaired judge of the Court of Appeal. Otherwise, the trend in the last three years has been no PWD is being given any Government position. I request the appointing authority not to punish PWD simply because Hon. Sankok is on a different political persuasion. That is the trend now. They are punishing PWD because of me. Let them come to me directly rather than punishing persons with disability. I have seen and I have been told that there were qualified PWD who applied for these jobs."
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