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    "id": 516554,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/516554/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
        "slug": "isaac-mwaura"
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    "content": "Section 15 of Cap 133 2A. Section 15 of the Persons with Disabilities Act is amended in Sub-section (6) by deleting the word “sixty” and substituting therefor the word “sixty five”. The principal Act, the Persons with Disabilities Act, No. 14 of 2003, Section 24(5) and (6) had provided that because of the time lost in school and in getting employment due to various barriers for persons with disabilities, the retirement age for persons with disabilities should be 60 years. But with the Government change of policy for all civil servants and public servants to retire at the age of 60, then persons with disabilities provision for an extra five years was done away with by virtue of that directive. So, this amendment seeks to reinstate that instead of persons with disabilities retiring at 60 years, they may retire at the age of 65 optionally. This would cure the problem that we have had in the past in terms of the Government giving contracts of two years, another two years and then one year. This problem had not been cured by the law that had provided for it initially."
}