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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in drafting this Bill, I hope that you have taken into consideration that we are not talking of segregation or concentration camps for children with special needs so that they can be trained in a different environment and integration. This will ensure that those children who seem to be born with all their physical features intact can learn to integrate and live together with those with special needs. We have many Kenyans who have battled disability, or special ability and have become very prominent today. Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve is a very shining example in this House. Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura is another very shining example. In the last Parliament, we had good examples like Sen. Leshore and others. I can tell you that as it is today, when it comes to my taste and my choice of music - because taste and choice of music is fairly dynamic - the best Kenyan gospel musician that I can spend hours listening to is a gentleman called Reuben Kigame. He also happens to be a presidential candidate. If Baba was not running, I would vote for Reuben Kigame simply because of the beauty of his music. He lives with a disability which is in the form of seeing, but God has blessed him in other alternative ways. If you follow his career, you will know the number of songs he has composed and the manner in which his songs are applied in praise and worship across churches of all denominations, not just in this Republic, but also across Africa. This is a clear testimony that if God takes away your sight, he will give you something else in double measure compared to what he has taken away from you. It is, therefore, important as a society we be compassionate and considerate to those who have been born with certain lesser abilities because God shall multiply their abilities in other ways."
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