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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1418166/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I appreciate you for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I support this Bill and say kudos to my Chair, Hon. Yussuf. The Chairman and the whole team have been very passionate at looking into issues of disabilities. In the 2019 census, 2.2 per cent of Kenyans were found to be disabled. If that is put into figures, it is 1 million. It could be more now because of the population surge. It is very interesting and saddening that 39 samples of the companies that we interrogated did not comply with the Constitution requirement. In other words, when we were looking at the status of the compliance to Article 54(2) of the Constitution regarding employment of persons with disabilities in public Institutions in terms of friendly environment, measures they have taken, their experiences and challenges, we found that they were not compliant. That is not acceptable. Disability occurs in many forms. It is a condition that limits people mentally and in movement or activity. It can occur to anybody. The irony is that, even when you are employed and you are fit as most of us are, you can still get a disability while working. Then you are scaled down and deployed without any policy guideline. For example, in the military, we have had cases of workers being stood down and deployed as receptionists and yet, they do not know how to handle phones. We are recommending policies that will make the environment that they operate in conducive and encourage training people who will handle persons with disability to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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