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    "content": "as to whether they have executed their mandate or otherwise, should be predicated on whether they have met this part of the provision of the Bill that is going to be law soon. It is my view that in order for them to monitor this particular provision, the NCPWD should have either; a. A branch in every county ; or b. A representative of the Council in every county Indeed just to ensure that this is what is going to happen, I believe – I wish that Sen., Njoroge had included this in the amendment – that it should be mandatory for the NCPWD to have branches in the counties in order for these laws to be performed. Having said that, he would leave the management of the execution to them but it would be mandatory for them to see that this is done. Not just that, we also need to see county by county data. When we get this data that Sen. Njoroge is asking for – and this Senate will demand – I believe that it should be county by county. Let us not just have a vision and a report that says that 300 people in Kenya have been employed. Let us go county by county. What is the population of challenged persons in each county? How many of them have been employed? How many of them have been given business opportunities? Now that we are murraming roads all over the place and we know that there is a provision for the youth that is being given in the county businesses; we know that there is a provision for women and we know that counties are trying to meet the business aspect that is supposed to be provided for women. We also want to see that there is also a similar provision that has been given to the persons who are physically challenged. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, intentions are not good enough. Our stores in Government are full of all sorts of well-intended documents; beautiful and flowery ones with nice names. However, they are never implemented. The idea here is to ensure that we do not just speak or intend to do these things. We must get them done. This is the issue. In fact, most of the challenges and the reason our development process takes so long and is taking longer than we expect is there. The devil is in the details. The detail in this particular case is: How do you ensure that this is implemented? We say that communication is not complete until you get feedback. Until you know that something has been done, you must not assume that it has been done. Therefore, to me, what this amendment does is to ensure that we have communicated but we have also got feedback from that communication. Let me also take this opportunity to say that when we travelled with Sen. Njoroge to Thailand and China, one of the issues that we raised with the government representatives in those countries was the possibility of having a conference here in Nairobi for the physically challenged and disabled Members of Parliament from various countries all over the world. In the Committee on Information and Communication, because that is where the idea came from, we are aware that this conference is planned. Sen. Njoroge has been in the forefront of ensuring that this happens. The Committee on Labour and Social Welfare where this issue will fall eventually is also asked to be in it to ensure that Kenya takes a strong position in terms of highlighting the plight of disabled persons across the globe. If this conference happens in Kenya it will be because this Senate created the idea and went on to implement it. 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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