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    "id": 790590,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Mental disability, which is brought about by mental illness, is a silent and hidden type of disability, just like the deaf community. You may not identify somebody with mental disability or hearing impairment. We end up handling them in a manner that will even worsen their type of illness or disability. If you meet somebody with hearing impairment on the streets crossing the road and you hoot and come out abusing the fellow for not hearing, it is the same scenario in which we handle somebody with mental illness. Sometimes we charge them with criminal offences which may not be of their own doing. My suggestion is that first of all, we give the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD) mandate to assess, register and advise on those with mental illness. They should offer their advice to the employers, institutions of learning and the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) when they are registering drivers, because we do not know if some drivers cause accidents because of mental illnesses. The NCPWD, after registering people with mental disability, should give advice to the firearms licensing offices. Sometimes you end up having private firearm holders who are mentally ill. When they cause problems, it is the only time that we say that they should be taken to hospital for mental assessment, which we should have prevented before it happened. Most of our kids who are below the age of 18 years spend most of their time with teachers. Almost nine months in a year, our children are with teachers. We need to train teachers and equip them with counselling skills so they can detect the kids who may be tending towards mental illness. Early detection sometimes will lead to proper treatment and healing. We need to train our teachers, not only primary school teachers, but also secondary school teachers and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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