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    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we need to address these issues with a lot of seriousness because all of us are potential PWDs. It is a question of time. We have seen from our colleagues here in Parliament who were once very strong people. I want to use the words of Hon. Dennitah Ghati, who used herself as an example. In the last Parliament, she came here as a normal person, walking on her feet and doing all activities normally. However, she is now on a wheelchair. She has lived in both worlds. She knows what it means to be disabled and to live as a normal person. I listened to her keenly and realised that she has a testimony we need to listen to if we have to make Kenya a better place. All of us have the responsibility of ensuring that Kenya becomes a better country than we found it. These are some of the laws that we must put in place to ensure that the kinds of discrimination that we see daily are not allowed in our society. These are good people who should be given opportunity to do that which God has given them capacity to do. In order to address those issues, my proposal, as shared with the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, is to ensure that we have free education for people living with disabilities. I know there are levels of disabilities – not everybody is completely incapable of supporting themselves. We need to get a way of giving a percentage on how one qualifies to get 100 per cent support from the Government. If a disabled person is willing to go to school, we should give him an incentive or some sort of token. We need to go out of our way and give them a chance. If disabled children excel and proceed to high school from primary school, they should get 100 per cent support from the Government. If they pass in high school and proceed to whichever college, they should be given 100 per cent support. That way, we will inspire other disabled children who look down upon themselves and wonder why them. The Bill is helping us and it is timely. It is never too late to change what we have earmarked to change. It is going to help the country by ensuring that we address those issues. We shall enrich it and make it better so that we capture everything else that has not been captured to ensure that people who are enabled differently are given decent treatment in the society to ensure that they also contribute to tax revenue just like any other normal person."
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