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    "id": 516597,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/516597/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Chairlady. I was just concerned about the language issue because the intellectual capacity of persons with disability is not necessarily lower than the persons who do not have any incapacity. If you remember what happened during the burial of the late South Africa’s President Mandela, somebody is said to have pretended to understand the sign language which, according to the Kenya Sign Language and what was being communicated and which was purported to have been in English, was not adding up. It means we have a serious gap between the demand and the supply for people who can speak this language. Looking at our schools, there are languages that are offered and they are not compulsory. German, French and the others are offered. If those languages are put in our curriculum as optional so that we can have more people who understand sign language, then we will have a better way to accommodate those people. The serious problem is that we can actually pass this law but have a serious problem when it comes to implementation. That is because if we say that every hospital must have a sign language interpreter, you will advertise for a job and you will not have anyone who applies for it because very few people, unless those who pretend to understand, will actually apply for the job. So, it is important that, maybe, we have a further amendment in the Third Reading to suggest that it be offered in schools."
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