{"id":6965,"date":"2019-12-04T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:44","slug":"disabled-persons-not-included-in-bbi-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/04\/disabled-persons-not-included-in-bbi-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled Persons Not Included In BBI Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By\nStephen Nzioka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persons with disabilities want to be included in key\ndecision-making forums to champion for their rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citing the recently released Building Bridges\nInitiative report, the people with disabilities the document failed to address\ntheir plight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf BBI will not address the issue of the disabled\nto nominate their own to parliament then we will not support it. We don\u2019t want\nnominations through political parties,\u201d Makueni chair for the disabled persons,\nBenjamin Ngulu, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even as Kenya marked the World Disability Day,\npeople afflicted with disabilities said the country is still far from achieving\ntheir required inclusion in all sectors, mainly in the areas of education,\naccess to information and employment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s national event was celebrated in\nKinyambu Primary School for Special Needs, Kibwezi East sub-county, in Makueni\nCounty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said that six years since the inception of\ndevolution, they are still unable to access information from county forums\nsince most counties have not adopted the use of sign language interpreters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/health\/article\/2001351923\/disabled-persons-not-included-in-bbi-report\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stephen Nzioka Persons with disabilities want to be included in key decision-making forums to champion for their rights. Citing the recently released Building Bridges Initiative report, the people with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}