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    "content": "Sen. Elachi talked about assistance to persons with disabilities while crossing the highways. In developed countries like the United States of America (USA) and Japan, they have speaking robots whereby a visually impaired person follows the sound of the robot and will just go direct and press a gadget and the vehicles will stop to allow that person to cross. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the physically disabled, we have outlets whereby you use the wheel chair without much hustling but in Kenya, we do not care about disability. Every house has stairs and once we put a ramp, everybody sees its importance and wants to use it. In buildings and social places such as hotels, persons with disabilities cannot use a social place like the bars or even rooms in the hotel. Where do we leave Kenyans with disabilities? As a country, we need to wake up and say enough is enough. We must be prepared. If we take account of what is happening in our homes; you build your house and plan that you will be sleeping upstairs not knowing what will happen tomorrow. You may go out in the morning and come back on a wheel chair in the evening maybe because of an accident. It will force you to sleep in the kitchen. It will also cost you to renovate the house to suit that disability. Let us be prepared and make our homes accessible to persons with disabilities. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I second this Bill, it will empower and direct Kenyans on how to serve persons with disabilities meaningfully. With those remarks, I beg to second."
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