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    "id": 965226,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/965226/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "not durable. Therefore, we need to look at issues of disabilities clearly as a legitimate constituency that needs to be facilitated and represented properly. When I look at the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Report led by Sen. Haji, I have heard a lot of complaints about PWDs not getting prominence when people were at Bomas of Kenya. I was not there because I was not in the country. However, PWDs expected that one of them would speak, so that they can see people who look like them and hear from them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are still under that element of tokenism where people still think that to have a person with disability is a favour; it is not a right and you are almost made to be apologetic for being there. This is a challenge. However, we need to appreciate that this is a legitimate constituency. Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and I represent a whole country of people who have aspirations. We have just had the census and it is our belief and prayer that the census will produce better results for PWDs. Our estimate is that we will have nearly four million Kenyans with disabilities out of an estimated 47 million Kenyans as we have seen the nominal results so far. Also, we hope that it will be desegregated in various categories of disabilities, so that we do not have under-representation or marginalisation within disability itself, especially when we look at developmental disability, such as autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome and intellectual disability. That we shall find this---"
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