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    "id": 784510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "it would die of hunger. For the Samburu community, from which some hon. Members are from, such kids were given sniffing tumbako mixed with water. This very bitter water will perforate the intestines. Such child will die in a lot of pain. I have rescued children who have been locked in sheep pens. A case in point is Ben Mbusia, whom we rescued in 2014. He was a child of 16 years who had been locked up in a sheep pen for more than 10 years. The language of the child was like that of sheep. He could only pronounce “mee mee” like sheep. He was locked up there for 10 good years. The child is now doing well at Mama Ngina Children’s Home. He has started school. This is the background of persons with disabilities in this country. In the neighbouring country of Uganda, you remember there was a story of Idi Amin Dada putting all people with disabilities in a tipper lorry and drowned them in Lake Victoria. This is a true story. Persons with disabilities in Africa have been marginalised. We have heard of children with disabilities like cerebral palsy. They cannot do anything for themselves. It is their parents who suffer. I know of a mother who has been carrying a child with disability on her back for 25 years. One day, she left that child with disability because she had to go and look for a small kibarua to feed the family. She left the child under a tree. She went to cultivate on somebody’s farm. The child was attacked by dogs we call T9, who took away his private parts. These are true stories on the background of persons living with disabilities. Our Constitution is very progressive. Article 54 elaborates what needs to be done for persons with disability. We, as persons with disability, should be treated with dignity and respect and not to be referred in demeaning words. When you call me kiwete, kiziwi, kipofu, these are names that should be used on non-living things. But you are referring a person with a word that is so demeaning. When I limp…."
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