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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity. I also join my colleagues in supporting this most progressive Bill from the Senate. It should not be lost on us that these are our children, brothers and sisters, relatives, friends and we are connected with them in various ways. They are just as normal as other human beings with functional organs. As is commonly said, they are abled but differently from what would be the norm. I remember some of our colleagues or fellow pupils in school who were abled differently when we were in primary school. They were not given any preferential treatment. We have adopted a system where children report early in school hence, distorting their sleeping patterns. We could report to school at 5:00 a.m. and leave school at 7:00 p.m. People were treated equally that you were subjected to lots of strokes of the cane as a punishment if you reported to school later than 5:00 a.m. Even those who were abled differently did not escape the wrath of teachers just because teachers did not understand the challenges they had, accessing schools and undertaking their lessons just like everybody else. This is something that we have to re-look into as a country. If you go to America, schools begin at 7.30 a.m. whether it is primary schools or secondary schools. They are done by 2.30 p.m. Every activity beyond 2.30 p.m. is an extracurricular activity where they play, do sports and any other recreational activity but not the core curriculum. The craziness that we have in Africa of taking a whole day doing book learning, out book smart people who do not know how to interact with the community."
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