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    "id": 1270767,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Parliament but I have not encountered a report from the PSC. What I saw earlier is a report on diversity policy for the Public Service by the PSC, which was published in 2016 when Prof. Margaret Kobia was the Cabinet Secretary. After that, there has been no publication of the diversity in our Public Service until Mhe. Yusuf Haji had done his report. Hon. Temporary Speaker, there are a few definitions of terms that I would like to go through for the benefit of Members. “Disability” is defined as any physical, sensory, mental or other impairment, condition or illness that is perceived by significant sectors of the community to have a substantially long- term effect on the individual’s ability to carry out ordinary day-to-day activities. “Discrimination” means to accord different treatments to different persons solely or mainly as a result of different abilities and disabilities. “Diversity” means recognising and embracing the contribution of people with differences in background, experience and perspectives. “Ethnicity” is the shared cultural practices, perspectives, language and distinctions that sets one group of people apart from another. Hon. Temporary Speaker, defining “gender” is like handling a hot potato with your bare hands at the moment. In Kenya, we know “gender” to mean either male or female. The other day, in one of the departments, I heard that you are at liberty to say that you do not belong to any gender - that, you are non-gender. I wonder where we are headed to"
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