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    "id": 620985,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/620985/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "The Bill that is being worked on is called the Built Environment Bill, on which we will anchor the new building code. All of Hon. Mwaura’s concerns have been put into detail, including minimum width of corridors, the issue of ramps in public buildings, handles in lift and voice-recognition devices in lifts for those who might be blind. All these issues of access have been catered to. Many of our proposals are borrowed from the American Disabilities Act. They have been put in there to make sure that all of those access issues are addressed. The NCA is the body that is mandated to approve all the constructions to make sure that it is in line with the building code. The first step in the process is to make sure that these provisions are in the building code. Secondly, the legislative framework through the Built Environment Act transfers that aspiration, which you have mentioned is in the Persons with Disabilities Act. The Persons with Disabilities Act just says that, that must be taken care of. If you would take my advice, you could amend your Motion to state that as the NCA undertakes this work, it provides for the inclusivity of PWDs. The NCPWD can have a member joining the NCA. That will require you to amend the Act that creates the NCA. The Motion cannot transfer the authority of approving buildings from NCA to NCPWD. That means that they will be approving all buildings. The body with the capacity and expertise and is full of engineers, architects and quantity surveyors is NCA. That is the point of interaction."
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