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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": "As a country, we must pay credence to our constitutional standing so that our places of work do not discredit any person abled differently. Providing interpretations of sign language has to be the norm. You have people who do not hear ― the deaf ― in a crowd where people are speaking and they are present but no one bothers about them and therefore, they cannot follow the thread of discussions. We also need to infuse more stringent rules that accommodate people of this nature. As I have said about giving employment, even teachers who teach in various institutions with people who are abled differently, also have to be included so that you have teachers who connect with them because they suffer the same fate. But you have people who have absolutely no knowledge about disabilities being given the task to teach and guide them in various ways over problems that they do not properly understand. Going forward as a nation, even though we have come up with a very progressive Bill, we need to go farther and make sure that the implementation of proposals, including the amendments that Members of Parliament will be introducing, are implemented. Otherwise, it will just be empty talk. They continue to suffer in the hands of those who do not understand them and life continues. That should not be the case. They are people who belong to our society and we have to embrace them the way they are, with disabilities notwithstanding. I, thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support."
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