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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have not amended it. I said I wish such a sentence could be added. So, I am not repeating an amended--- I know the procedural Standing Orders. It was just my wish that even if this were to be the case, we should even go further and say that these children are facilitated to have free education when they go to these schools. It is not any child's wish, or anybody's wish, to be born blind or deaf or with any disability whatsoever. Not at least at birth or when they are young children. Therefore, the Government should do something for these children. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now training teachers on special education, as they call it. They are going back to the districts, in those ordinary primary schools, but they cannot, really, help children with disabilities, because they do not have the facilities. Teaching blind children requires special facilities. Teaching deaf children requires special facilities. So, the Government, or the Ministry of Education, should use part of its budget to facilitate schools for special children. There are donors who come in to aid these schools, but you find that, in spite of the donors facilitating and giving help to these schools, the administrators of the schools still charge very high fees. So, I would like to say that we support this Motion. We want the Government to do something about children with disabilities. It is so serious a matter that children with disabilities have a problem. The problem is such that if it is not taken care of, children with disabilities will spread throughout the nation and will suffer. So, I would say that I would like to see the Government do something about children with disabilities to make sure that they are taken care of. If the Government could come out and tell us what it is doing with children with disabilities; it could come out openly, so that we know how deaf children, blind children or crippled children are helped. This could come out very clearly to help July 11, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2411 these children. I support this Motion and hope that it will be implemented. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say that we cannot be intimidated by the Press. Every time we stand up, they walk out, like they have walked out now. This nation has to make up its mind whether it is under the intimidation of the Press or it is a free nation which makes its decisions as per the laws of the nation. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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