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    "id": 823383,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ijara, PDR",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sophia Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to contribute to this Motion again. As you know, persons with disability are our children and our relatives and it is very important that we take care of them. As a nation, we know the situation and the status that they are living in. The truth of the matter is that the special education schools that we have currently do not have adequate resources and enough teachers who are trained specifically for the disabled. We know that the schools that are there are public schools. I come from Garissa County and it has one special school. That one special school that Garissa County has is in a very pathetic situation. The conditions under which our children with disability are living in are wanting in this country. If you go to that school, there are no beds and beddings, children do not have wheel chairs and classrooms are in a pathetic situation. They have about two teachers who have been trained. I fully support this Motion which is asking that we have a special school in every constituency. The school that I am talking about is where all the disabled children in every constituency in Garissa Country will be brought to. Others who will be unable to get to that school will miss the opportunity of acquiring education. Article 53 (b) and Article 54 of our Constitution gives every child, whether normal or a disabled, guarantee to free and compulsory education. It goes ahead to talk about the provision by the Government. My time is running out, but I want to say that we have a responsibility, as a nation and as this House, being a budget-making institution, to give resources to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology so that it can go out, do a mapping and give proper education to the disabled children. Children with disabilities are a resource. We have seen young men using their feet to cultivate. We cannot waste 20 per cent of our human resource in this country by neglecting them. There have been rituals around persons with disability, but it is our responsibility to break those rituals so that we can give space and opportunity to children with disability."
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