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    "id": 1418186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1418186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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    "content": "What does “progressive” mean? How has this “at least 5 per cent” been measured over the 14 years of the existence of the current Constitution? The Committee delved into this matter seriously and audited 39 institutions across the country. It is worth recognising that only the Lake Basin Development Authority met the requirements in law. It is good to applaud the authority for standing out to be the only institution in the country that has met the legal threshold in compliance with the law on people living with disability. The average of meeting the threshold for the progressive realisation of mainstreaming people with disability across institutions stands at 2.1 per cent. The last data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows that 2.2 per cent of Kenya’s population or 0.9 million Kenyans are people with disability. That tells you that there is a sharp decline in people living with disability, relative to the 2009 census. That casts serious issues on how our year 2009 census was conducted. With all the natural vagaries, accidents and problems, it is not logical to say that disability has decreased with time from 2009 to 2019. That indicts how the 2019 census was conducted. That disability has today has diminished, 10 years from the year 2009, goes against science and basic logic. It gives more flesh to those who were agitated that the 2019 census was not well conducted and, more so, in the pastoralist communities of Northern Kenya. It does not augur well that disability has diminished and decreased with population increase - scientifically, rationally and logically. It is only in rural communities where we have a majority of the people with disability. This Committee should know that the institutions required to absorb at least 5 per cent of people with disabilities are not in rural communities and yet, the majority of those people live in rural areas."
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