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    "id": 826035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I have not seen in our most populous City County of Nairobi any special attention to persons with challenges. Instead, every Friday – and the Senator for Nairobi should address this – we have people who exploit disabled persons. There are criminals who every Friday wheel them to roundabouts and sit there with them to beg. We are now getting to a situation like Pakistan where families deliberately burn their children or cut off their limbs so they look so bad and go and stand at roundabouts and roadblocks with them to beg. I am seeing this happening in Nairobi. Disabled people are being wheeled in on wheelchairs from Kawangware down to Town and standing at roundabouts on Friday from morning to evening. That is a criminal and inhuman conduct. I urge the Senator for Nairobi to collaborate with the state to get rid of this immoral behaviour by persons who exploit others. One even asks how much of that money they get from begging every day from morning to evening ends up in the pockets of the disabled person other than being used as an instrument for raising money. It is an act that should not be condoned in our society. I support this Motion, Madam Temporary Speaker. I want to see that we have a deliberate legislative framework that supports persons who have challenges of any nature so that they can live like we do. I salute my younger brother, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Westlands. My brother was a footballer in his early age, and a robber, taking away a small car from him, shot him right through the back and crippled him forever. However, my brother lived through it. He has been elected competitively twice in Westlands, beating people with tons of money like Kamlesh Pattni, hands-down."
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