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    "content": "been set internationally to help Governments and statistics bodies to capture data relating to PWDs. It is the first time that they will be used and there is a panel for that. However, remember that registering PWDs is not really an enumeration kind of thing. Even if you see the disability, you need to know the type and category, so that you properly assign label. That is important because it informs whatever intervention mechanisms that would speak to the programmes that the Government would want to establish or the allocation of resources. In 2006 I was in Kajiado and went to some manyatta and found an old man, who was clearly disabled. In the same house there was also a deaf girl. We asked him the question: “Are you a person with disability?” The man said: “No, I am not.” Even that identification with that label of a PWD is seen as negative because of the taboo. Yes, census will give us data. The global average is that in every population, there are about 10 to 15 per cent of people who have a disability or another. The 2009 census produced only 1.3 million PWDs. So, we anticipate that with 46 million Kenyans, based on the latest household survey of 2016 released by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), there are about 4.6 million PWDs. We anticipate that this should be the case with the census. However, currently, the PWDs who are registered by the Council are about only 400,000, because of the challenges that have enumerated before. Administrative data is not adequate because people do not seek services because of the very areas of marginalisation. So, we still need to do a lot of awareness. As I reply to this Motion, I support the idea of creating a special budget where we will have a nationwide specific census and registration of PWDs. In the last Parliament, we allocated about Kshs300 million and that is why we were able to move the numbers from 200,000 to 400,000. Despite that, majority of PWDs are still not registered. Therefore, they cannot access the benefits that I have just enumerated. In fact, the Government knows the number of elephants in this country, but not the number of PWDs. It is time we do so. I commend the sponsor of the Motion and ask this House to unanimously pass it since it will help to ensure that, indeed, we bring out the real conditions of PWDs in Kenya. This will ensure that we have meaningful interventions of both the national Government and county Governments. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply."
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