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    "id": 1267110,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Persons with Disabilities Bill (Senate Bills No.7 of 2023) be read a Second Time. History tells us a story of a poor, young and blind Kenyan man from Makueni named John Kimuyu, who in 1959, at 26 years old, defied age, race and disability to court and soon after married Ruth Hallway, a well-off 35-year-old white missionary woman from Nottingham, England, who was his teacher at the school of the disabled at the time that he attended. Needless to say, the union in 1959 was unfathomable amid segregation and high tensions in the midst of British colonialism. This was the backdrop to which their story progressed, attracting much opposition from the British community because of the race and disdain for Mr. Kimuyu’s disability. In response, this also saw Kenyans with disabilities take to the streets in protest of the discrimination. Although black men, including Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Argwins Kodhek had both freely married white women themselves, protestors demanded that"
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