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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to support this important Motion. From the outset, I congratulate my sister, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve, for her great concern and also the much experience and skills that she is bringing from her background of being an educationist in this sector. She is helping us to look at policies and regulations that would suit this particular group of people whom we need to take care of as a country. Education is a human and constitutional right. Good academic performance in this country means good employment, good Curriculum Vitae (CV) and good certificate. Therefore, education needs to be made in a way that everyone can achieve some good grades and performance to be able to have a good certificate. Therefore, the means and language for instruction should be understandable to everybody. The deaf and persons with hearing problems must be taught in a language that they understand. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other day, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve shared with me a composition from a certain deaf student. The student had just written her own things, simply because she never got the right interpretation of the question. She never understood the wordings, sentence and question that required her to write a good composition. All our subjects, except Kiswahili, are taught in English and questions in examinations in this country require one to understand English. To be able to do or interpret mathematics questions and perform well, one needs to understand English. Therefore, it is a noble idea for Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve to suggest that we must ensure that English is understood well by this group. Madam Temporary Speaker, I join my colleagues in saying that we need to do much more for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in our counties to enable them to enjoy the constitutional gains of devolution. When you go to Kajiado County, for example, I only know of one school for the deaf in Ilbisil. It is, however, not even well equipped and facilitated in terms of teachers. We, therefore, need to have a department for PWDs in every ward or school so that they can be attended to properly. We may not also be able to take that child living with disability to those special schools, they can also be taught in a normal school where all other children are taught. Therefore, it is high time we had sections in our schools that are equipped to cater for every child living with any type of disability. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is high time we also tried to understand more about what the new curriculum contains for PWDs – from pre-school to university – so that we can know what concepts have been designed for them, because we need to take care of them. I assure the public that Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve is an educationist and she cannot come up with a policy that will not suit the education of children with disabilities. We shall also scrutinize any law that will be introduced so as to assist our children. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know that we shall be going for recess, and I do not want to pre-empt that debate. However, I request that you give me a chance to congratulate the female President who has been elected in Ethiopia."
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