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    "id": 1393009,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1393009/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": "This Report is based on the Kenya Population and Housing Census of 2019, which we all know is disputed. Therefore, the figures that have been put here could be unreal. We know a census in this country takes place after 10 years. I want to plead with the Government to consider the desperate situation we all witnessed last year, during the registration of Inua Jamii Cash Transfer Programme, when we could not register thousands of PWDs because they did not have registration numbers. Now that the Government has devolved the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) to the counties, I plead with them to review the numbers of those people and consider funding that Council, which is the body that is entrusted with considering matters of PWDs. 5 per cent is a very small percentage for us to attain as a nation. If you read through the Report, you will find Switzerland as the best county in the world for having considerably given employment opportunities to PWDs. I am also happy that in the East African Bloc, our partner State of Rwanda is also rated very highly for having considered them. Time and again, PWDs have lived on donations as if they are not citizens, waiting for whatever happens in their lives. It is time that the Government makes a deliberate move and considers funding them through the budget in the avenues they work with like the NCPWD and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, just like other Kenyans."
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