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    "id": 867538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "I would like to advise the Committee and also the Head of State, in future to consider Article 54 of our Constitution which demands that, in all these commissions or appointive positions there should also be consideration of persons with disabilities. I can authoritatively say, without fear of contradiction that as a country, we have tried to implement that. Two or three months ago, we had vetting of nominees of two commissions. One is the Commission on Administrative Justice and we had somebody who is deaf. We also had vetting of National Gender and Equality Commission nominees and there was representation of persons with disability by the name Dr. Chomba, who is visually impaired. As a person with disability and a representative of the six million persons with disabilities in this country, I am worried because this is the engine that will spearhead employment in our country and yet Article 54(2) of our Constitution specifically says that 5 per cent of all employment should be of persons with disabilities. This is a very key Commission for us, as persons with disabilities, to be represented in. Since all these Kenyans are qualified and are Kenyans of integrity, I support this Motion and ask the Head of State, in the name of the Almighty God, to consider us in the appointment of the chairperson. We have so many persons with disabilities who are more than qualified and this Commission will be very well constituted, if in the appointment of the chairperson, we have a person living with disability. Of course, now that I am here, I will not qualify. So, I am not defending myself, but I am 100 per cent sure that there are persons with disabilities outside there who are very much qualified."
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