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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "want to suggest this because every year the President of this country usually makes an annual state of the nation address in this House. I want to throw this to the President. When he is talking about equity in this country, he should actually also address the issue of employment of communities in this country. Where do the Tesos, Kurias and Njemps of this country fall when you are generalising communities in this country? The Public Service Commission has a responsibility. It should come to this House and explain to Members when we are talking about employability of communities in this country, where is equity? Employability must attach itself to the employability in terms of gender, communities and our diversity, including persons with disabilities. I am an MP for people with disabilities. In this country, persons with disabilities are left behind the most when it comes to employment. I want to use this opportunity to ask the Public Service Commission to come to this House and explain where the persons with disabilities are placed in the ministries. If you go to the various ministries beginning with the Ministry of Labour, you will find a percentage of persons with disabilities who are employed in the ministry and the Government to be 0.00000 per cent. Currently, look at the composition of persons with disabilities and their employability in Government. Look at the CSs. The Cabinet currently has no person with disability as a CS. The Government only has a PS for Heritage and Sports who is a person with disability. You will realise there is no representation of persons with disabilities in the CAS position. It is wrong and shameful. It is not fair to persons with disabilities in this country who are 6.5 million. The Census 2019 currently places persons with disabilities below one million. I use this opportunity to refute. As the MP for persons with disabilities in this country, I ask the ministry, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and partners to redo the census of persons with disabilities. We cannot be less than one million people 10 years after we did a census in 2009 where persons with disabilities were placed over four million that time. What does that translate to? Ideally, that means when resources are being allocated to this country, persons with disabilities get zero. That is completely unacceptable. We want a county by county audit of the population that is persons with disabilities in this country to be able to benefit from the national resources that are actually given to people in this country. It is unfair and, as a Member of persons with disabilities, the census has to be repeated county by county to establish the truth. On behalf of persons with disabilities, we do not agree on the census. That means when it comes to employability, persons with disabilities do not get positions in this country. Counties are the worst employers of people with disabilities. Persons with disabilities belong to counties. They do not belong to Nairobi and yet our governors cannot comply with employability of merely 5 per cent of persons with disabilities in their offices. When you come to our nominations, the Constitution of this country guarantees that every county assembly must have two representatives who are persons with disabilities. As we speak, it is so shameful to report that over 17 counties in Kenya, out of the 47, do not have Members of County Assembly who represent persons with disabilities. Hon. Members, if your county does not have a representation of persons with disabilities in the county assembly, shame on you and shame on your governors. We cannot allow that to happen. Persons with disabilities have families to feed and children to take to school. We cannot afford to continue marginalising persons with disabilities. I have been marginalised twice or thrice. I come from a community in this country that is extremely marginalised forever. The Kuria Community is a marginalised community and that is why we are agitating for a county so that we can continue to enjoy. I am also marginalised by virtue of my disability. Persons with disabilities in this country are highly The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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