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    "id": 826068,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826068/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "I called for a meeting with the then Ministry of Public Works and Infrastructure, the Chief Architect and the Chief Engineer. We asked them why most public buildings in this country did not have access for Persons with Disability (PWDs) and, at the same time, crossing roads is a problem. The excuse that they gave at that time was that the building code in this country was last done in the 1960s yet in the same room, I had called the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KeBS) because they are the ones who set up the standards for building. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Director-General of KeBS then demonstrated to us that Kenya has an International Organization for Standardization (ISO); a certified standard for building that even tells you the gradient. It tells you that every pavement in this country must end with a ramp. Builders might say that they do not see many people with wheelchairs in town, and so, they do not build it like that. However, the reason they are not there is because they have not created the facilities for PWDs to be able to access. We gave him timelines by which every public building must be accessible. The county governments as well as national Government should not approve building plans for other buildings coming up that cannot provide access for PWDs. We have all those plans and the ISO certification for Kenya. The standard is one of the best in the world. It tells you the width of a toilet door for PWDs and the kind of handles they need to have. It even specifies the height of public transport from the payment."
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