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    "content": "life on a wheelchair from 1929. Because of the facilities he was given most of time during his entire presidency, nobody knew that he was suffering from such disability. With a disability which was a chronic one, he managed to successfully lead the USA during the Second World War, in which the USA and the allies became victorious. He had a very wonderful spouse known as Eleanor Roosevelt who was very constructive and effective in the establishment of the United Nations. Many people who have read the history of the organisation know that it would not have been in place without Eleanor Roosevelt’s contribution. Franklin Roosevelt was President of the USA for more than three terms. In fact, he died while he was serving his fourth term. He was not only able to lead that country successfully through a war, but also a recession that started a little bit later after he had been hit by polio. I am just using this as an example. Probably, we may not know that the people within our society whom we consider to be having disability and, therefore, cannot contribute successfully in nation building, maybe the person that we need at this time. Probably we would have more peace in Africa and in the region if we had people with disability given opportunities to be effectively employed in the service of the nation. I believe even East Africa would be safer. Madam Temporary Speaker, today I was watching something in the social media, seeing how Dr. Besigye was being beaten and roughed up. I felt so bitter and bad. I know somebody like President Roosevelt would be pained because given the way he was beaten up, it is quite possible that the next time you will see Dr. Besigye, he may not be walking on his feet. He may join the persons with disability. That is something that must be condemned because some of the disability is created, not through disease, but bad governance. I want to remember one of our heroes, Mr. Matiba. Probably, without going to detention and serving his life in prison, he would still be up and about. Therefore, when we talk about this subject of disability, we must always remember that sometimes those with disability may be people who care more about society than those whom God has given the full control of the mental and physical capacities. As I remember President Roosevelt, there is another person in England known as Mr. Stephen Hawking, a professor who is suffering from a neuron disease which is degenerative and cannot talk. He has to use certain scientific contrivances in order to communicate. After the Second World War and since the discovery of the Theory ofRelativity – probably one of the greatest contributors to the field of physics is this man called Prof. Stephen Hawking who is a fellow in Cambridge University. He has even written one famous book know as Brief History of Time which I think is a must-read for many people. So, disability is not inability. That is the starting point. I congratulate Sen. Omondi for bringing this very important piece of legislation. I hope it will be enacted and through it, we will try to focus this problem, not only at the national level, but also take it to the counties. This is because sometimes the way county governments are run, it is like they are these small “banana republics” where what matters is the people who sit at the governor’s office, without really caring about the less advantaged people of society living in those counties. Therefore, when we have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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