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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope your office will facilitate my temporary status until I fully recover. This is the life that is breathed into Article 54 of the Constitution. I want to bring up another point, I know my colleagues have talked about devolving the training of people with special needs. I am proposing that the national Government gives tax-free for all assistive devices, hearing aids, and any process and even the things that are being used by schools for the deaf in this country should be given tax-free. I know that there is registration of the Inua ---sorry. I almost said Inua Mama but it is Inua Jamii . In those days, there was what we called Inua Mama but we did not know where they were inuaring mama to. However, I am talking about Inua Jamii and their registration of the PWDs and the people above 70 years. That is what the Ministry of Interior and National Administration or the Ministry concerned is doing. Some people are also severely impaired or there are PWDs that are severely impaired. However, when we are registering, no one is keen to capture these people living with severe disabilities Where I come from, the PWDs in my county of Nandi, have complained that counties are not taking them seriously. For example, in my county, what they do yearly, and you know this is budgeted for, they call them to come to Kapsabet showground, they give them soda, a loaf of bread, blankets and mattresses, and that is the end. That is how low some of the counties think about PWDs. Unfortunately, my county is leading on having a low view of how our PWDs should be treated in this Republic. Therefore, I want to laud Sen. (Prof.) Kamar. This is the right time that we are having this conversation and therefore, on the tax-free, I was told about the cochlear implant that my brother Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was talking about. We need to give them the devices tax-free, including hearing aids, reading glasses of any other form, and walking sticks. I know that many organisations are doing it as part of charity. We must ensure that there are tax-free assistive devices for most of our young men and women. Even access to public places, we must agree. There is also the funding of these schools. I know the Ministry is doing affirmative action. Where I come from, in Kapsabet town, near Nambwe, there is a school for the deaf. We must push and ensure that they have proper support from the government in terms of facilities and resource mobilisation. The problem is that we have left the less fortunate in this society to the mercy of charity organisations where we imagine the people who are PWDs, the attention they deserve is from the NGOs. You can see the NGOs that fund most of these organisations also come with strings attached. We must be honest. If you listen to messed up stories of defilement, rape cases, and abuse of children by NGO individuals--- some cases have been adjudicated and determined by the court of law--- it majorly happens in these homes where the less fortunate in society are. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
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