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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to express my support for this Motion. First of all, I take this opportunity to also welcome the students from my Constituency. They have a grand opportunity to see us discussing human rights. The difference between human beings and other living things, particularly animals, is that we have human dignity that needs to be protected and human conscience. The whole basis of that in our Constitution is actually the whole of Chapter Four on the Bill of Rights that has taken into consideration all the rights that we think of. They are: The socio-economic rights, human dignity itself in Article 28, freedom of Press, freedom of information, socio-economic rights in Article 43, the rights of Children in Article 53, the rights of the youth in Article 55, persons with disability in Article 54 and rights of the elderly persons in Article 57. The Constitution also goes ahead to establish a whole commission on human rights. It is, therefore, extremely important that this actually gets anchored further in policy that will give directions and strategies on how this can be achieved. Otherwise, what is in the Constitution will be a very important paper, but will not really serve Kenyans. Therefore, any society and any human endeavour really look at serving the human dignity on the basis of human rights. To that extent, it looks at the many programmes that we have in this country, even the ones for the youth. We have Members here who have really advocated for the youth. Look at the programmes for the persons with disability, orphans, vulnerable children and the elderly persons. All these really need to be encompassed in one major strategy and policy document that will ensure that we can, as people who are charged with oversight, task the Government to show us - strategy by strategy - what is being done and what results are coming out of that. With that, I support this Motion."
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