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    "id": 1166369,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir. I rise to support this Bill, the Special Needs Education Bill which is sponsored by Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Prof.) Kamar. First, just to note that this advent of co-sponsoring Bills is really a novel idea that has only being done by the Senate and it produces very good results. Different Senators have different expertise in different areas that are dear to them and the synergy that is created really brings quality legislation. The first Bill that was sponsored by two Senators was one of the Bills by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and I; I think it was the Disaster Management Bill or the one for determination of nature of Bills and he was able to bring in his legal expertise and I brought in other expertise. In this particular one, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Prof.) Kamar are both very passionate about education. If you look within the preliminaries and definitions, you can see that some good research has gone into this Bill. I rise to support it. In the year 2011, a few friends and I were doing something called “Team Uhuru” for the election of President Uhuru Kenyatta. We visited a place in Langata, on the birthday of President Uhuru Kenyatta - then he was Deputy Prime Minister - that is run by the sister to the Senator for Kajiado, Sen. Mpaayei, her name is Ms. Simaton. When we went there we found very many children - it is called Therapies for Kids - children who ordinarily would be locked at home. In many of the slums or informal settlements in Nairobi, you find because there is no one to take care of that child because the mother must go to wash clothes or to look for a job, many times when such a child is born, because of the stigma, the father disappears. So, the father is not there, it is only the mother, and these children are locked inside those houses. They stay there for years almost like animals. We saw the improvement that this lady had done because she was able to get physiotherapists, people for the different special needs of these children. A child who had been written-off because of the mental health issues, whether it is autism, palsy of one sort or the other, are able to be rehabilitated and actually turn out very smart. This lady explained to us the challenge she has, and I am glad this Bill is talking about facilities and equipment because many parents cannot be able to physically get their children to that center or to a similar center. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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