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    "id": 961065,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/961065/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayako",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "One way of giving incentives to PWDs is to support this Motion and tell them that if they train, have the capacity and get employed, they will be able to work until they are 65 years of age. I do not think that is asking too much. That is being decent, nice, and being a person who cares about society. You care about society in two ways. You give incentive to a PWD to work hard and seek employment, but you also ensure that a disabled a person does not double depend on society by seeking gifts or handouts from the Government when they retire too early. They need to support themselves because they are decent people who deserve to be treated decently. Nobody wants to be a beggar or their options be limited such that since you are disabled, you have to beg somebody for money to buy something at your local market or send someone to go to that market on your behalf. It is important for us to ensure that the policy that is already in place that disabled persons should be in employment up to the age of 65 years is implemented to the letter. A penalty should be imposed to those who want to retire a disabled person before the age of 65 years who are ordinarily working. It is very rare to come by people in academia, particularly in universities, who are disabled persons. I am sure that proposing that the retirement age of these people in academia to be moved from 70 years to 75 years will not be asking too much. There are very few professors who are suffering from disability. The Chair is also a professor. I am sure in the institution in which you were learning, you could not count many disabled persons. I have a friend called Prof. Joe Malo who we worked with at the Kenya Nuclear Electricity Board (KNEB). He was disabled, but a very able professor. Prof. Joe Malo, other people and I, were able to steer that organization to great heights. The Mover of this Motion proposes that people in academia, particularly PWDs should be given a few more years of service. I think that is a wonderful proposal that will encourage our PWDs to continue excelling in academia. Since they are very few, if we give them incentives, majority of them who may be holders of PhDs or masters may continue doing research, writing and dispensing services as professors beyond the age of 70 years."
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