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university or sign language should be put as a subject, so that people learn sign language for easy communication.
Like also in courts we should have sign language interpreters, in hospitals, and different government offices.
Another thing I wanted to talk about is leadership. This is a very big problem, like when it comes to election some disabled
people are not accepted to vyi for some seats, but we also want to become presidents, it is not just the normal people who
should become president but we disabled people should be given a chance to also lead the country. There times when normal
people cn fail but us disabled people can succeed.
Once we have a new constitution, it should be circulated to all the people, street children, women, disabled people, everyone
should get a copy because we are all equal. Nobody is above the other. Like I said when it is made it is only for rich, because
it is published and bought, we should understand, we have some people who are very poor and they can’t afford to buy. When
it is printed out, everyone should have a copy so that we know what is written in the constitution, we should know our right,
because sometimes we say, like we have economy proble, this and that, so because it is our sweat, we want to know our right.
So we should not sell the constitution, it should be free, for everyone to get a copy and read. Also we have some poor people
who cannot afford school fees, so we have ssome schools that are expensive that the others, what I want is that all the schools
should be the same and should be under the governement and everybody should have a free education, so it should be put in
the consitution.
In Nairobi city, for example the city council, do not give us correct services for example the city askaris, we really do not know
their responsibilities, and they run around with hawkers. We want them to be put in every station, maybe each three, they
should put a number of the sity askaris to take care of the city, because we have some streets that are not well maintained, we
want this to also be put in the constitution, we need a clean city and this is their responsibility.
Education; the deaf education is always low, and after primary education, we are taken to professional training, we also want to
get the education just like everybody. Like, we the 8.4.4, the sytem should be taught for everybody,not for separate people,
the deaf people we don’t get that kind of education, after our primary school, we are taken to professional schools and this is
what we don’t like, we want to move in the modern because there are computers nowadays and we also want to learn that. I
think I have finished my points, thank so much.
Athsmani Mwaura: Thank you. First, I want to thank our God, Creator of the universe and all people, including us people
with disability and also I would like to that everybody who made it happen on thinking about the Constitution Review
Committee. In our country, we have more than or about 13 million people with disability and the number is increasing day by
day, because of the road accidents and other disasters. I am one of the victims of these road disasters, and each and
everybody can remember about the August 7 th bomblast here in Nairobi, at about 8a.m. nobody knew what is going to happen