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    "id": 826110,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "We must also recognize the work that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) did. We, as a Committee, had the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KICD and asked them to work with the Senator to ensure that the materials are ready. I have never seen people work for 24 hours for 7 days. That is what one calls 24/7. It was real and they got the material on time. When the Speaker confirmed his attendance, Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve did not sleep for the 7 days. She would make calls even in the wee hours of the night. We will be grateful to her forever. God brought you here for a purpose and you will change our country as far as PWDs is concerned. As we talk, we have three special schools in Uasin Gishu County. These are the School for the Mentally Challenged, the School for the Deaf and the School for Children with Albinism. The challenges that we still have, leave alone the children with Albinism because they follow the current system of education, is that, we do not have any secondary school for the children to exit. That is why I support the issue of a Bill. It will guide the country on how to develop them from early childhood up to a level where they can exit formal or informal education and be able to do things for themselves. We are honoured to have Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve here. She is a university lecturer who has been writing books and teaching material. She will work closely with KICD and come up with the teaching material. In fact, one of the recommendations is the need to ensure that we have sign linguistic material developed. I told myself, ‘are we not lucky to have someone able to do that?’ For many of us only watch on television and see someone using sign language, we go to church and see someone use sign language, and have had no idea whether the sign language is in English, Swahili, Luo or Kalenjin . We just see sign language. I was privileged to hire a deaf secretary. I can tell you she was the most amazing and the best performer I have ever had. When I was a Member of Parliament, I hired this girl from church. She told me she had good typing skills and I hired her both as a typist and a Personal Assistant (PA). Nobody would bring anything that was not proper in that office. She was able to receive visitors and did everything until everybody said that it was amazing. It appeared like she was even speaking more than we did."
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