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    "id": 485442,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/485442/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to thank the Chairman of the Committee, but I want to say that this response from Kazungu Kambi is very shallow. It is very shallow and does not provide any new information with regard to the plight of persons with albinism. If you look at the reasons given as to why there have been delays in implementation of the persons with albinism programmes; money was allocated in 2011 and it lay idle in accounts; it came to the issues of procurement of sunscreen lotions and that is why you can see that a board was dissolved and a director transferred. This was because they procured sunscreen lotions at a rate that was four times the market rate. Further, I want a clarification on what the Ministry is doing with regard to the death of people with albinism because of skin cancer. This is the case, yet the Persons with Disabilities Act provides that those who are in constant need of medical attention should be taken care of by that agency. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also need further clarification with regard to creation of structures for implementation of this programme. This is because currently, there are no administrative measures to ensure that there is a proper committee that co-ordinates this programme. In my view the response is good because it is administrative, but it is not adequate to answer to the plight and the needs of persons with albinism in this country, whom I represent in this House."
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