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    "id": 822054,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. First of all, let me take this opportunity to congratulate my sisters. The women Members of Parliament have done very well today. The first Motion that was discussed today was brought by Hon. Jessica Mbalu and this one has been brought by Hon. Mishi Mboko. So, I want to congratulate my sisters for an excellent job touching on very special issues that touch on our society and things that people do not what to talk about. Hon. Jessica spoke about issues of sexual violence that people do not want to talk about and Hon. Mishi is talking about issues of special needs that most of us do not talk about. I will not say much, I just want to indicate that what we are discussing here could be a case of asking that special units be put in each school or it could be a case for setting up special schools. Either way, we are realising that there is a need. If you look at the Act that is being referred to, it was an Act of 2004 and time changes very fast. I would want to encourage the Ministry responsible that we need to do a research and determine whether we are ready for putting or integrating the children. I know the ultimate standard should be to integrate the children but as other Members have said, do we have teachers who are skilled to be in every single school? I have almost 112 primary schools and 34 secondary schools in my constituency. With 112 primary and 34 secondary schools how many special needs teachers do we have? When we look at the issue of disability, we have different cases as Members have said. Some are mental, others are physical. Even with the mental disability category, there are very many different cases. I have heard many Members say they do not have special schools in their constituencies. I want to congratulate myself and my constituency because we have several special schools. They include Nyamuga Special Primary School, Obaluanda Special School for mentally challenged, Hope Special School for the mentally handicapped and Lambwe Christian School for the deaf. For primary schools, we already have four. The only one we do not have is for secondary schools. So other Members can learn from us. Use NG-CDF funds and establish such schools, if you are talking about special schools. The reason I am saying that for me at this point in history we need special school, I have visited each and every of those schools; I have visited every single school in my constituency. When you look at the special schools, because most parents fear taking their children there, most times you find that the circumstances and situations in those schools are not very good. A lot of time if you do not give support, especially through NG-CDF, they tend to lag behind. Because the needs they have are very many, children with special needs tend to suffer more than the children in the other categories. We also forget that children with special needs also need to be involved in co-curricular activities, just like in every other school. I have a very special and interesting case study: a special needs school that is integrating children without special needs. 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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