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    "id": 620822,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Like the previous speaker has said, a meeting can be put on the fourth floor and there are no lifts. This becomes difficult for participants who had come all the way to attend the meeting. That is a big challenge. In future we should invest in that. The architects and ministries concerned with housing and construction of buildings should see to it that each and every building constructed is accessible to all. These include those who are on wheelchairs, crutches and even those who are blind so that they can get to that place easily. I request that we amend the last sentence so that we do not give the National Council of Persons with Disabilities the power to approve these buildings. This one might be duplication. I request Hon. Mwaura to amend it to say that if we enact this law and it is entrenched in our laws, it will be the duty of the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Develpment or those who are charged with that responsibility to look at the maps that are used for buildings. Once it is law, we do not need another body to come and do the same. Let the experts like the architects who are trained to do that do their work. In as much as we are talking about buildings and infrastructure to safeguard the interests of the disabled, we also have challenges in our own cultures and traditions; that people who are challenged in one way or the other are looked at as an abomination. The family detests it. The family does not look at it positively but sees it as a curse from God. You find some communities locking their loved ones who have been born with disabilities in their houses so that they cannot be seen. Some are rescued from those houses where they have been locked for many years. When they come out, even those who could have been assisted through, maybe, physiotherapy or medication or any other way, become incapacitated for life. We should change our attitude and our way of appreciation of these people. Let us not see them as a burden, curse or punishment from God. They are people who should be assisted, taken care of and appreciated like any other member of our society. With those few remarks I support. Thank you."
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