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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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    "content": "avoid stigmatisation. We have recommended some interventions and we are asking that they be strictly implemented. One of them is strict human resource policies. There is nothing much that is tailored towards this category of people in institutions. We have also asked that the strategy for recruitment should be changed. For example, putting an advertisement in a local newspaper, in a website or using organisations of persons with disability and think that they will be alerted that there is a job advertisement, does not work. We have suggested that the offices of area Members of Parliament will be more convenient to send messages. For example, if you go to Ndhiwa Constituency, you will find a folder with all the people who are disabled with their capabilities. So, if there is a job opening, they can easily be alerted and asked to apply. We should be getting regular reports after every three months. After changing our Standing Orders, we can implement this recommendation so that we know if there are improvements on the anomalies we got during our interrogations like, employing more persons with disabilities and availing more tenders to them. Sometimes, we wait for a year to lapse and then, at the end of it all, we have nothing. Lastly, people living with disabilities are central to our social and economic development. Any discrimination on them will increase poverty and pressure not only to the person living with disability, but to their families as well. Any form of discrimination will increase poverty and pressure to the family, leave alone the person living with a disability. So, this social exclusivity should be stopped. We need to do more. We just examined 39 institutions, but there are so many companies out there that are not complying. With that, I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I hope we will continue to interrogate this issue more."
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