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    "id": 1580578,
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    "speaker_name": "Matayos, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Geoffrey Odanga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the Motion and thank Hon. Wangwe for moving it. It is true that PWDs in this country live under very difficult conditions. In the last Parliament, I asked the Cabinet Secretary a Question regarding registration of PWDs. The Question was placed before the Committee, under the chairmanship of Hon. Wanga, who was then a Member of this House. Nelson Marwa came to respond to the same. Little has been done. For a person to be registered by the Council as a PWD, they have to be approved by a doctor, who are very few. It is very harrowing to be registered. The registration is not done once. I thought after a person is assessed and approved as a PWD, the disability is permanent. I do not think the disability disappears at any one point. For instance, a PWD from Matayos or Navakholo has to come to Nairobi, and you can imagine the pressure they face on the Nairobi roads and from its residents. Sometimes the person goes back without being registered. The solution would be to devolve the services to counties or sub-counties for ease of registration. Walking around Nairobi streets, you see a lot of PWDs begging. It is said that some of them are being abused and misused by other people who make business out of the few coins that PWDs make. This is something that we need to rid our country of. We should give PWDs assistive devices and ensure cash transfers reach all of them. In the past, cash assistance was disbursed in social halls and people around the PWDs would con them of the money. Many a times, they would not get home with the money. We really need to work on this. Special schools should be given the priority they deserve. The teacher to pupil ratio is very low. When constructing buildings, we need to include facilities like ramps to assist PWDs. I once went to Brussels and I have never seen a shorter man like the one I saw. He works at the European Union Parliament and is given facilities he needs such as tables and chairs to enable him to do his work. We need to consider doing so in our country. I thank Hon. Wangwe for moving this. I support, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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