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    "id": 1157161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to say that I support the Children Bill. I am supporting it with interest in children with disabilities. Disability has different classes. There are children who have very severe disabilities. These have not been taken care of in this Bill. These children have very severe disabilities such that they cannot even talk, walk and move. They are just put on beds or wheelchairs. I have come across these children in my constituency. Maybe my colleagues also have such cases. I have so many of them in one of my wards. It is very wanting. I support the Bill, but I will propose amendments to it to take care of the dignity of children with cerebral palsy and other cognitive and developmental disorders. There should be provision for access to social assistance by children with such severe disabilities and neurological development disorders, through their parents and guardians. These children require special care. Most of the time it is the mother who takes care of them. This mother cannot even participate in any meaningful business because these children cannot be left on their own. It is notable that these children require care all the time. The parents of these children are unable to even mingle with others through merry-go-rounds and other social activities. The parents or their guardians do not undertake any income generating activities. 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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