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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "Godliver Nanjira Omondi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for allowing me to add my voice to this important Motion. First of all, I want to congratulate the Committee for working tirelessly to ensure that we have this Report that touches on the development of our counties. As we know, development is a matter that is concerned with people’s lives and the future of the generations to come. I want to say that as we work as a House or as Senate to ensure that the Government gets revenue allocation, they need to be reminded that this money is not for personal gain or for rewarding their close allies. I want to speak with a lot of passion regarding the way the people I represent, that is, people with disabilities are being treated when it comes to matters of budgeting, revenue allocation within the counties, involvement with people with disabilities and touching the lives of these people. I want to make it clear that as far as we talk about involvement, there is a group that is left behind and these are people with disabilities who are never consulted, involved or given information about what is happening within their counties. The service providers and the implementers of the Constitution are very happy moving ahead thinking that they are serving everybody when they are leaving the most vulnerable group behind. I want to say that even if remind ourselves of all that has been talked of here, nothing has touched on the people with disabilities. The 30 per cent requirement for tendering, only talks about two groups of people, when constitutionally, it is about three categories, that is, people with disabilities, women and the youth. Since disability is not something to be given a priority and most of the time, it is given at the end of the tail, I think that is why most of the time disability does not feature anywhere. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we look at the issue of health, you find that most people with disabilities are not able to access health facilities because there is lack of accessibility within the existing facilities and also the distance. To add on that, the kind of services offered to the people with disabilities is demoralizing and it sends away this group of people. As I support this Motion, I want to mention two counties which have the best practices as far as disability is concerned; Kiambu and Migori counties. These are the only counties that have keenly worked to ensure that disability is mainstreamed."
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