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    "content": "have neglected persons with disabilities. This has happened so much. I was in an institution where just at the highest composition of the nine commissioners who sat in that institution, two of them were persons living with disabilities; Dr. Tororei and Mr. Lawrence Mute and even some of our heads of departments were persons living with visual disabilities. Therefore, we must devise programmes that do not leave this people out. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have a cousin who is a lecturer at Kenyatta University who was born with visual disability. Families must learn to take responsibility for educating all their children, but it is an extremely costly affair when they are relegated to poverty and they are disabled. You can almost be sure that if the State does not intervene, those persons will be destitute. Therefore, this country must start to take its responsibility. That is why I keep on saying that the human rights agenda is a developmental agenda. Many people think that it is an activism agenda. Activism as a human rights agenda is an on-going process, but the Bill of Rights has anchored the massive rights that we have today in this country as a constitutional duty and obligation of every State. We, as the Senate, are charged with that obligation. If you look at it critically, most of these functions around basic rights, for example, the right to education under Article 43, the right to food, water and healthcare are functions of the county governments. Therefore, if the Senate cannot discharge its responsibility, then we can be sure that we will prejudice generations to come. I want to commend this Committee because I see light at the end of the tunnel. I can promise you, particularly those of us who come from what has been historically referred to marginalized areas like Marsabit, Bomet, West Pokot, Laikipia and many others, that unless we educate our society they will not be able to live up to the challenges of devolution. This is because devolution needs the expertise with very good idea to deliver. What sustains modern societies is the generation of ideas. In this country, there was a time when dictatorships forestalled the creativity of our nation. At this juncture, in our statehood, we have an opportunity to be extremely creative. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have seen some of our colleagues, including one of the professors, who is lately hitting Hollywood. Where is Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o? Is he in Hollywood? Sorry, it is the daughter who is in Hollywood. He is in Boston, Harvard."
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