{"id":618150,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/618150/?format=json","text_counter":338,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"February 10, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 36 Sen. (Dr.) Zani","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Let me explain, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir because I cannot do it from the legal perspective as you would like me to do. The general term that people have been using when referring to a blind person is ‘Kipofu’. However, Sen. Omondi is saying that from the disability movement, it implies to a non-living. So, from that perspective, it should be “Mpofu” but the real word that is used is “Kipofu”. I think her argument is that in the disability movement, you do not use “ki” you use “M” for “Mpofu”, which, again, from the Kiswahili perspective, is not a word that is often used. However, from the perspective of a social construct and how she is using “Ki”, then she is coming from a different perspective. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think here we have two issues. We have linguistical and the social construct issues. They are totally different."}