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    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": "people with disability. We do not consider them for many positions which they are capable of performing. Getting employment is very difficult for them. The Committee went through various institutions to establish the total number of PWDs that are employed, and 2.1 percent is below the belt. It is also important to note the positions they occupy once they are employed. A majority of them are cleaners or clerks. Are any of them chief executive officers (CEOs) or directors? Let us also look at the status of those who are employed. It is so difficult for them but, as most of us have observed, we see a lot of people living with disabilities in the rural areas. Even though there are no jobs there, I have seen many organisations employ or rather include them only as committee members, which is not a fully- fledged job. It is a membership, where you make decisions for a group of people like a member of a school board. They also tend to be included in small areas like a member of National Government Constituencies Fund (NG-CDF), National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) or Uwezo Fund. In terms of real jobs, they do not get employed easily. There is also a case I know of a lady living with disability. She was expectant when she appeared for an interview and so, she never got a chance to be employed even though she qualified for the job. As I said earlier, the problem we have is the very fact that we do not give an opportunity to people living with disabilities because we are negative towards them. We stigmatise and do not include them in serious employment. We only give them positions where they are just members and they get some little allowances here and there. We do not give them serious employment. This is an attitude of the mind. I think it is high time we started sensitising the community and employment firms to employ people living with disabilities. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I support this Report."
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