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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "As you all know and as everyone in this House has seen, especially during last week's Impeachment Motion, women go through a lot in politics and it is tenfold, dare I say when you are a female with a disability in politics. However, she took on the challenge with a lot of grace, strength and poise in all of the positions that she was able to hold until her demise recently. I just want to appreciate her even in her memory, though we were not able to speak all of these good things that we are saying here when she was alive. As people say, give flowers to people while they are still here. Nevertheless, we wish to condole with the family and the friends and pray that she continues to rest in peace. I would say to rest in power because she has left a lot of power in the spaces that she has traversed, created more inclusion and diversity and has been able to have people with disabilities seen, heard and understood just by way of her being in the position that she was in and to fight to stay in that space until this moment when we lost her. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also just want to reiterate how important it is to be more inclusive of, especially women with disabilities in the political space. In the last election, there were about 6,000 candidates. Out of those, only six people with disabilities managed to get into seats that they vied for. That is a very low number and that needs to be improved. I hope that the spirit that she leaves behind, as a woman with a disability fighting in this space, Members in this House and in the National Assembly will honour her spirit and continue the work that she so diligently did for all the time that she served all of us as Kenyans. I thank you."
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