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    "id": 1270772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": "example is that an executive or an authorised officer who does not adhere to the law should face the consequences. I would add that such officers should not only face the consequences, but there should also be a penalty for the Head of Department or Head of the Semi-Autonomous Government Agency (SAGA) in question, for not following the law to the letter. The penalty I suggest to be in the amendment when this Bill gets to the Committee of the whole House is that there should be a fine of not more than Ksh1 million and maybe six months imprisonment or both. What my Committee is now doing is only reporting. After we tabled the Report, which shows a lot of glaring issues, no action has been taken. The only thing we can now do is to name and shame the authorised officers who are not adhering to the Constitution. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Constitution has been made so as to benefit Kenyans. It is very unfortunate that it is being ignored in order to marginalise the marginalised communities, the youth and the disabled even more. It is our finding that so far, no government SAGA has employed the minimum five per cent of members of the disabled community at minimum. The highest compliance rate we found out of the 34 SAGAs that we looked at was four per cent, and it was only from one organisation. On average, compliance was at 1.2 per cent. When we asked them what was happening, they told us that people living with disabilities did not apply for the positions or they did not qualify yet we know that in Kenya today qualification is not a problem. Any segment of that community is qualified for anything in Kenya. You and I know that very well."
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