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    "id": 799887,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve’s Motion. First of all, let me talk about the history so that we understand where I am coming from. When we talk about introducing Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) in schools or when trying to come up with a Motion to ensure that people can be trained to speak is kiswahili through sign language, what is the history of the entire sign language in this country? If history serves me right, KSL was introduced through the support of the United States Peace Corps Volunteers in 1960s. I thank the former President of USA for having done so. We are not shifting from KSL to Kiswahili Sign Language. In essence, very few schools with deaf students teach KSL. We have over 600,000 deaf people in this country. Many of them cannot even converse. Parents of Maasai deaf children just come up with an idea on how they can talk to them, but they do not have skills to communicate. We need to put this thing into context and ask ourselves some serious questions on what we need to do. Do we have a proper legal framework that ensures deaf people are supported to learn just like any other citizens in this country? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve is doing will help this House narrow it down and come up with legislation that will make it mandatory for all institutions in this country – whether or not there are deaf children – to teach Kiswahili The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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