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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": ", meaning a hyena. Who will elect a hyena? We are also referred to as ormaima -a nd Hon. Sara Korere is here, which is the seal. When you are referred to in such demeaning words, you may not even be elected. People will shy away from electing you. So, the Committee has come up with a legislative framework to remove those demeaning words. This will assist us to come out, because PWDs also seek opportunities. We are no longer sympathy seekers. We seek those opportunities. When we are given such opportunities by a progressive amendment like this one brought by Hon. Kioni, then we will come out and grab the opportunities. You have seen Hon. Tim Wanyonyi, the Member for Westlands, one of the richest constituencies in the whole country. It is a constituency that holds part of the economy of this country. If he was elected on a wheelchair, we will come out because of this amendment and we will be elected. You will see so many of us in this House representing our people. The other issue I support is that instead of the special interest groups being viewed as supplicants seeking nomination favours from political parties, we will be given a level-playing field, so that we can compete with the rest of the public. We will attain the two-thirds gender rule. We will attain representation of PWDs in both Houses of Parliament and even in county assemblies when this Bill is passed. So, I urge Members of this House to support this particular amendment. Currently, we are supposed to have representation of PWDs in the county assemblies through nominations. Some people have grabbed those nominations and purported to be representing PWDs. Some of them have even pretended to be PWDs. Others have said that they are PWDs because they cannot give birth. Others have said that they cannot fertilise women and so, they are PWDs. There are people who have taken up our positions. We were supposed to have 94 MCAs representing PWDs, but currently, 20 counties do not have any representation of PWDs. Seventeen of them have one. Only 10 of them have representation of PWDs, because those were favours that were sought from political party bosses and they ended up giving the slots to their girlfriends."
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