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    "id": 1491136,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "of people living with disability; that at least 5 percent of the members of the public in elective and appointive bodies are persons with disabilities. This is provided and is an affirmative direction for both elective and appointive. I therefore encourage Sen. Crystal Asige that next time, she should give us a status implementation report of the appointive of the 5 per cent within the national and county governments so that we do not only talk about elective because the Constitution is very subjective. It is not only elective or appointive. We would like to know if appointive positions meet the criteria of the PWDs. That can be found at Article 54. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in Article 177 on county assemblies membership, this is a straight-forward matter on the 5 percent. It is disappointing that more than 20 counties have not met the threshold of PWDs and the youth. Today, the biggest challenge facing the country is the ballooning youth across the country. We need to hear their voices in county assemblies. We are lucky that some of us were elected to this House when we were youthful because before, it used to be referred to as Nyumba ya Wazee . We are however lucky to be sitting in this House giving voice to the many young people’s agenda. Even in the county assemblies, we want to see more young people running for elective seats but they should also be given chances through appointing. I am happy that the Secretary General of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is in the House. We have their Deputy Party Leader and the Party Leader of the United Democratic Movement (UDM), Sen. Roba. We also have other people who run political parties in this House. There are other life members of ODM like Sen. Beatrice Ogola. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we must come together - and I wish the SG of ODM was listening to me because what I am saying is very critical – that political parties need to consider PWDs even when running during nominations. They should be given priority because of the unique nature that the PWDs have unlike the able-bodied people."
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