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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to support the appointment of Members to this Committee. It is a very important Committee. I had even applied to be a Member but I found that I was not included. The point I want to raise is on the Members in this House who have special needs. The services of those Members are not properly addressed. For example, when you go around Parliament, there are places we cannot even access. I have talked about Continental House and the gym. Sometimes I have to leave Parliament to go for physiotherapy. We have a very well- equipped gym here where we can do those things but it is not accessible to us. The washrooms are not properly accessible. The other thing is the sitting arrangement in this Chamber. We sit right at the back whereby kamukunjis are held. Hon. Speaker, sometimes when you are addressing us, I do not even follow what you are saying because everybody sits behind here and they talk and make a lot of noise. Those are some of the things that we should be looking at. I should not just be permanently seated here. I can sit in other positions. We also feel that the importance of this Committee cannot be overemphasised. I would have also wished that one of the Members of this Committee is a person with disability. I believe that we can speak for ourselves better than somebody else speaking for us because this is very important. I feel that we need to be considered in some of those Committees so that we can present our cases properly. Somebody else cannot understand what I go through every day when I come here. The other area is at the parking. I suppose that areas should be designated specifically for us so that when we come, we can park our cars and get out of the car without any hindrance. But in a few areas which have been marked as parking for the disabled, you find that Members park there and sometimes they cannot be told anything. We take some of these things for granted but they are very important for us. I want to feel comfortable when I am here and feel that I am a representative of the people not someone soliciting sympathy or anything. This Committee should address some of these issues and privileges of Members must be taken into account wholesomely."
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