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    "id": 1153233,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "You can hear the trumpets of the brass band as his body is being escorted out of Parliament. The President came to power on a wheelchair. This is very significant. He had gotten an accident and as a result, he ended up on a wheelchair. It is out of this that President Kibaki promulgated the Persons with Disabilities Act No.14 of 2003 into law. That was a watershed because it enabled persons with disabilities whose Bill had actually been in limbo in this Parliament for 10 years since 1993, to see light of the day. It is actually out of that that in 2004 under the leadership of my colleague Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo Ayacko, I was appointed to sit in the first board of the National Council for People with Disabilities (NCPWD); a body that was created to superintend over the affairs of people with disabilities by ensuring the implementation of the very law that created that body. I am a direct beneficiary of the leadership of President Mwai Kibaki in 2004. Earlier on, it was quite interesting because there was a very serious scheme to deny him to become president. When I first registered as a voter in 2002, I could not vote for President Mwai Kibaki, the reason being many names that started with an O and M had been omitted in the voter register. I also remember at some point Raila Odinga’s name was missing at Olympic Primary School polling station on 29th December, 2002. However, he still went ahead and won resoundingly, with over 2 million votes, at 63 per cent of the votes. That is how he was declared president “ yote yawezekana ” under the NARC banner."
}