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    "id": 1166340,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1166340/?format=api",
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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": "development all our teachers are equipped with skills to deal with children with special needs. I do not know whether we want to just have some people to specialize in it. However, I think just like in some countries where swimming is mandatory for the adult population, even in Kenya, every teacher must have certain basic skills to deal with children with special needs. It can never be and it should never be that a child with special needs is told by a teacher: “Go and see Mr. Wanjau or Mrs. Nyaboke because I do not know how to handle your case”. The care, compassion, consideration and training for children with special needs should be 101 in teacher training colleges. I believe that this is a Bill which both Houses should prioritize so that it becomes the legacy of this Parliament. When it becomes a law, I am confident that Hope School for Children with Special Needs will finally get consideration under the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) that has been used to finance infrastructure for other schools in this country. Many of the NG-CDF committees are only looking at primary and secondary schools. They are not looking at these special needs schools. As I said earlier, there are those who think that they should be taken care of by county governments and there are those who think that the national Government should finance them directly. So, I am hopeful that school will get some money that will go into infrastructure. Admittedly, this particular school has benefitted from some allocation from the NG-CDF of Suba North. However, I think that in a constituency that probably has 30 secondary schools and maybe three or four special needs schools, there needs to be some proportional allocation for some special consideration for the special needs schools because they are fewer and yet they have got higher transformational impact."
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