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    "id": 732749,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "to provide for a limitation or an exception to copyright in order to allow beneficiaries and authorised entities to undertake any changes needed to make a copy of our work in accessible format for persons who are print-disabled. Secondly, it is to allow the exchange across borders of those accessible copies produced according to the limitations and exceptions provided under the Marrakesh Treaty or in accordance with the operations of the laws of the adopting country. I will now move the requirement for the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty. The Treaty requires the amendment of Section 26 of the Copyright Act, Cap.120 of the Laws of Kenya so that it can have effect in Kenya to enable printers and publishers know that those who are blind, visually impaired and otherwise print-disabled will access reading materials. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me move to the process leading to adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty. The Treaty was adopted on Friday, 28th June, 2013. It actually entered into force on 31st November, 2016 after ratification by the 20th country which was Canada. Currently, there are 51 countries which have already signed the Treaty. For Kenya, the Cabinet approved the ratification of the Treaty on 31st October, 2013. There was no reservation placed on the Treaty when the Committee looked at it and talked to various partners. Further, the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty does not involve additional expenditure of public funds that is foreseen in its implementation. The Committee is thankful to the offices of the Speaker and the Clerk of the National Assembly for the support that was accorded to it during the sitting. On behalf of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, I want to urge this House to approve our Report and ratify the Marrakesh Treaty. Finally, I want to say in line with what I said at the beginning that Commissioner Josephine Sinyo narrated to the Committee her life journey from Ngandu Girls Secondary School to the Kenya School of Law. She said how, as a blind person, she was able to struggle to become the first woman lawyer who is completely blind. In my constituency of Saku, I came across a young girl who graduated from the Thika School for the Blind after her high school. Her name is Grace Tume Wario. She was taken to that school by her father. In the community where I come from, a young girl who is blind or disabled is destined for nothing, possibly even marriage. However, I am extremely grateful to her parents. She was not the only girl in that family but they decided to take the young blind girl to school. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Grace Tume Wario will be joining a teachers training college to be a teacher in future. Because of those two individuals, I personally felt that there are laws that are important not just for everybody, but for the few who are struggling in our society and who need all the help they can get from those of us who are clear sighted. With those remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Sunjeev Birdi to second the Motion. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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