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    "id": 823404,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "Ndhiwa has almost 300,000 people and we have a substantial number of disabled children, be it emotionally or physically. However, the whole constituency does not have a single special school. You find that many children from Ndhiwa go to other constituencies, some of which are far away. To add insult to injury, raising a disabled child is very expensive and, therefore, sending them to another institution far away is an additional expenditure to the same family suffering from that condition. I think we have to do this in a very structured manner so that when a school is built, it should have a special unit with all the gadgets that are required such as ramps and staffing. Many teachers have done special education, but they are currently wrongly deployed. If we establish these units, teachers with special needs training will get the right places to work in. In addition, they will be very instrumental in identifying children especially those with emotional deficiencies, which we call ‘statistic kids’, and make them join this population. So, I support this with all my heart and hope that the Committee concerned will look at Ndhiwa positively because we do not have a single special education school in that whole constituency."
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