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    "id": 1393072,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kasipul, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Ong’ondo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to indicate that I am a member of the National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity Committee. I am a veteran there. In the last Parliament, I served in the same Committee. I laud my Chairman, Hon. Yussuf, and all Members of the Committee for the executive job done. Even the National Assembly entered into expenses catering for meetings that we held in Nairobi, Coast and western regions where we sampled different State corporations. Wealth in the Republic of Kenya is normally distributed through employment in which consideration for disability was done. The object is to ensure a good percentage, 5 per cent as per Article 54(2) of the Constitution, is brought in. The average non-compliance in 39 institutions is 2.1 per cent. You will note that things are not very good if you go deep in each institution. Some are at 1 per cent or 0.5 per cent while the Act stipulates a minimum of 5 per cent. We checked every part while auditing those institutions, including the Parliamentary Service Commission. It is interesting that even the Parliamentary Service Commission, our employer, has not complied with the minimum of 5 per cent. We have a lot to do. In addition to the employment that comes with income, we checked the working conditions. That is why we have put some recommendations for each organisation to be given time to prepare human resource manuals as a policy so that we can improve. During the audit of the institutions, we noted a person living with a disability faces many challenges. That is why we have put in those recommendations. We also had some observations. We believe some organisations were not bringing good reports because they said applicants were few whenever the advertisement of jobs was done. Kenya’s academia has advanced. There are several institutions of academia, even at lower levels, that have specialised in persons living with disabilities. There are many persons living with disabilities who study and graduate from our higher institutions of learning. Our Report indicates there is no shortage of people living with disability who are qualified for employment. They are there and we noted a lot of discrimination. That is why we brought up very good recommendations. The laws are there, but implementation is the only issue. I request the team in charge to implement this Report after we pass it."
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