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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you for this opportunity. Allow me to thank the budget committee. This is a Budget that is really inclusive. I also want to take this opportunity to say that I am happy that the budget committee visited my county. You are aware that I represent persons with disabilities. You are also aware that I am the immediate woman representative of Migori County. I was very happy to see the budget committee in my county at least looking at the issues that we looked at in the last Parliament like the issue of education. And I am happy that my people came out to give their views. The people of Migori basically sat down and presented their views. And they talked. The Committee looked at the issue of upgrading Migori TTC into a university. That is a good observation and I must thank the chair and the various stakeholders that visited my county. I want to pick from what the Leader of the Majority Party has just mentioned. The issue of budget-making should not stop with us. It should be a regular issue so that if the budget committee goes to Kilifi, they need to go into rural areas of Olenguruone. They need to go to Kuria. They need to go everywhere, especially to areas that bring issues of equalisation. We have constituencies in our counties that are basically not as up-to-date as the way counties are ranked and subsequently given their share of the Equalisation Fund. So I am happy that now we are looking at issues that are very pertinent to our people. As a representative of persons that live with disabilities, I wish to say that I will also be very keen even as we upgrade these institutions, like the TTC in my county that is going to be upgraded into Migori University, to look at how these structures that are put in place are accessible to my constituency. We have persons living with disabilities who belong to various constituencies. Therefore, even as we upgrade the structures, like the TTCs and colleges, we want to ensure that we also promote inclusive education for persons that live with disabilities in those counties and constituencies. So it is very important that even as we upgrade and allocate money to these institutions, we also need to know that persons that live with disabilities in those constituencies and counties access education. Our various education institutions have to be extremely accessible to our people so that they are not transported from Migori, for instance, all the way to Thika to look for education simply because they have a wheelchair or they use assistive devices. So I am very happy. Allow me to touch on the issue of NYS. The budget for NYS has been reduced simply because of some gluttonous Kenyans who have made it impossible for our young people to access the services. The young people are suffering through this reduction of NYS budget simply 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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