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    "id": 1151633,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1151633/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "This Bill also emphasises that discrimination in terms of pay, promotion, training or access to opportunities should be curbed. Henceforth, it should not be witnessed again. That means we are protecting persons with disabilities not only to get them into employment but also to be retained by not just being given the lower cadres. They should be allowed to grow through the ranks to the highest levels in office. As legislators, we should create enabling infrastructures. A person should not be employed because he has a disability. He should have gone to school. It is our turn to create good infrastructures and schools. We should give good supportive gears like wheelchairs to persons with disabilities. We are constructing good roads like the Nairobi Expressway to enable us drive very fast. How about persons with disabilities? The best way to enable them to walk is to give them infrastructure and walking gears, even if it means improved wheelchairs that are motorised so that they, too, can walk or go a long distance to enable them go to school and get back home. Those legislators who will come back to this House—I hope that my people of Navakholo will give me another term— should come up with supportive laws, so that we give the persons with disabilities enough infrastructure to enable, support and give them their headways in terms of what they can achieve but not because they are disabled. We should ensure that they are well-schooled."
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