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    "id": 975835,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "Josephta Mukobe, who also represents us at that level of Government management. We are not yet there. We need more. We need representation in Cabinet Secretary and Chief Administrative Secretary positions. We also need full implementation of the Persons with Disabilities Act of 2003 and Sessional Paper No.14 which, Hon. Nyikal, when he was the PS in charge of special programmes or labour, tried as much as possible to implement. Many of our achievements as PWDs were courtesy of Hon. Nyikal while he was a PS in the relevant ministry. Let us give credit where it is due. Kenya ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2008. It is now for us to take this opportunity of the Building Bridges Initiative to converse and make sure that there is inclusion of PWDs. That is why, on behalf of the 6.5 million Kenyans with disabilities, I support the BBI process 100 per cent so that we can bring about inclusivity. We also support the expansion of the Executive so that we can bring in inclusivity. There can be nothing about us without us. If we are at the table, we can easily influence policies that will assist the employment of our fellow PWDs. That is why we support the expansion of the Executive by creating the position of a prime minister and two deputies. Inclusivity does not mean tribal inclusivity of bringing different tribes to fill the five positions. We have 44 tribes in this country. If we have to bring in five tribes, you will be excluding 39 tribes. That is not inclusivity. Inclusivity means that we bring in the SIGs and affirmative action groups so that if the president is a man, the deputy president must be a woman and the prime minister position reserved for a PWD. One position of the deputy prime minister should be reserved for a youth and the other for somebody from the marginalised communities. As Members celebrate, they are now aware of who qualifies to be a prime minister and who does not. From all indications, you should start getting used to your future prime minister. For the sake of bringing on board the youth, we should also have conversation about the retirement age of civil servants being tied to the age limit of any politician. We cannot say civil servants should retire at the age of 65 because they are past intellectual menopause and are tired and yet, when it comes to politicians, we keep on recycling octogenarians in our political fields. There are also State officers. If you are a governor, you are also a CEO. A CEO of a State corporation has been told to retire and forced to go home because of attaining the age of 65 and yet a governor, at the age of 80, is still productive. I do not know if we recycle teenagers or something of the sort. For the sake of the youth to get employment in our country, let us tie the retirement age of civil servants to the age limit of every politician. Sisi sote tufunge viragotwende nyumbani ."
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