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    "id": 1511579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanjiku Muhia",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I rise to support. This Bill would not have come on a better day than today, 3rd of December, which is World Disability Day. That is why you see these honourable ladies and great men of this House waiting until this late. This Bill would not also have come from a great committee than the one led by Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a, the great Member for Thika Mjini . As a member of Kenya Disability Parliamentary Association (KEDIPA), we interact severally with this committee and indeed I can attest that it is a great committee. The work in their in-tray is a lot, but they are equal to the task and able to handle it. I confirm to this House that in 2013, during the 11th Parliament, I amended the original Bill of 2003, which was a 2013 amendment. I then introduced sign language to all our television stations. Many people mistakenly think that television stations woke up one day and started airing news with sign language. That is far from the truth. It was only Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) which was doing that. It is one thing to make a very good law and another to implement it. It took months to make this amendment. I kept on going to the Committee of Implementation. Let me declare my interest. I am a mother of a daughter with disability. I know that this community of persons with disabilities is normally neglected in all aspects of life, to the extent that they sometimes do not know what is happening in the world. It took months until the then Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) threatened to switch off all television media houses if they did not anchor news with sign language. I am happy that today, all our television stations have complied. The disability community or persons with disabilities, somehow come second in our country as well as in Africa. We have a whole Ministry and a Cabinet Secretary for animals and Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) yet we cannot afford a Cabinet Secretary for persons with disabilities. I can attest that the deaf society is close to one million people. They have only been given one representative at the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) to handle their issues while the livestock have a whole ministry. I want us to challenge ourselves today, being 3rd December 2024. We need to evaluate ourselves as leaders and see how many persons with disabilities we have employed in our constituencies and offices in Nairobi even"
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