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    "content": "Ministry’s activities in that financial year; the extent to which the county and national governments have complied with the provisions of the Constitution. This Act is on matters relating to persons with disabilities. The steps proposed to be taken in the new financial year ensure compliance with the provisions of the Constitution. This acts on matters relating to persons with disabilities and any other relevant information. This one provides that the national and county governments shall reserve, at least, five per cent of state and public service positions for persons with disabilities and provide for positions by the national and county governments of the necessary facilities to persons with disabilities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I had said, history is filled with frightening narratives revealing how persons’ disabilities were created. Sometimes, these people are rejected, humiliated, undermining their dignity and respect. While some persons with disabilities have gained through sheer struggle to overcome their disability situations, millions are still wearing out without much hope for a decent living. Before a person with disability benefits from the idea of employment part of the bad treatment and challenges that they go through, as we have seen, results from myths and false perceptions about disabilities coupled with ignorance on how to handle a variety of disability conditions in society. Whereas neglect and lack of awareness on the conditions of the persons with disabilities persist, lack of disability friendly policies to clearly mitigate the issues of persons with disabilities together with inefficiency, implementation of existing legislation has been a major hindrance to the nature and quality of service delivery. Mr. Speaker, Sir, over the years, a great many concerns towards persons with disabilities have been raised converging into now the all important United National Conventions on the Rights of Persons with disabilities. The convention endorses defence and safeguards equal enjoinment of all human rights and liberty by persons with disabilities. The World Programme of Action to implement the UN Convention is a strategy with a clear cut purpose to secure disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalisation of opportunities. Numerous negative encounters by person with disabilities are still persisting on a wide scale. Despite such great efforts, human rights for person with disabilities are also under-affirmed with equitable access to resources obstructed by lack of responsive policies and efficient implementation arrangements. Access to essential services such as hospitals, roads, malls and educational institutional facilities among others infrastructures are in many instances out of the way. This exposes old and unproductive thinking that has yet to appreciate the peculiar needs of persons with disabilities. It is very problematic to comprehend the scale of the difficulties the persons with disabilities undergo in full. The numbers of people with disabilities are globally an estimated one billion, but without proper country practicable data details on the type of disability. On the nature of acquisition and even geographical spread, no functional service delivery is assured. The joining agents of poverty, disability and suffering are nothing. The problem is deep rooted in the world as is now structural violence, systematic customs in which public structures hurt and draw back persons with disabilities in an elusive manner with great danger of causing disability or extending it. We need to imagine how emergencies, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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