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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Possibly it delineates the challenges of PWDs because when there is this kind of terrain, they are not able to navigate properly because of issues of accessibility. In fact, this morning I was privileged to officiate an event that we are organising about assistive technology between the United Kingdom (UK) and the Kenyan Government as a follow up commitment to the Global Disability Summit that we had last year in London. What we are doing, as the Chair of the advisory board is that, we are looking for innovations that will help PWDs to have affordable, but quality assistive technologies and devices. For example, there is a very good innovation by a young man called Lincoln which is a motorised tricycle that would help PWDs at the cost of about Kshs80,000. However, it can come lower so that it is affordable. As politicians, we like to donate these assistive devices to PWDs because they look good; it is political philanthropy with political mileage. However, most of them are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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