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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Sen. Crystal Asige, consult; you will not die from it. Consult experts, and I can fairly say that I am an expert in legislation. I have been around for 20 years. We want to give life to this. We want to do more. We want to remove the fate of People with Disability from the hands of political leaders. They get an opportunity because political leaders of political parties then give them some form of support. We should tweak the law so that People with Disabilities can elect themselves. Sen. Crystal Asige, you can still win an election. You do not have to rely on the national party leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) for you to come here. We can say that in this election, People with Disability will vote for themselves so that the People with Disability find their way into this House of privilege. The Senate is a House of high privilege. The National Assembly and the County Assemblies are positions of high privilege. We cannot leave that in the hands of leaders of political parties. The People with Disability can agree amongst themselves on a model of the election, or we can legislate a model of the election that will be used with People With Disability. One of the reasons why I do not like the way we identify affirmative action--- Women who come to the two Houses are because of this same problem. Two, the reason I do not recognise the affirmative nature of the 47 county women in the National Assembly is because the wrong people voted for them. If we wanted women to elect a county MP to represent them, what business would we have in voting in that election? We should have, under this Constitution, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, drafted the election laws so that on voting day, we men do not participate in electing the county MP; women do it. It is this thing that I want us to push through so that we do not rush it. Sen. Crystal Asige, do not forget you are my brother's daughter, and I cannot harm your industry. I want you to achieve more. Not so much because it is good, but also because you have proven that those of us who have been here for 20 years have been sleeping on the job. Why did we not think innovatively the way you have done? With those many remarks, I support."
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