The Kenya National Council of people Living with Disability Uasin Gishu County branch chairman Titus Yego has urged Kenyans to embrace and accept people living with disability, and should give them basic education to improve their livelihoods.
He was speaking on Thursday during a sensitisation workshop on how to handle children living with disabilities to ensure that they also enjoy the rights enshrined in the constitution as their normal counterparts.
"According to Article 53 and 54 of our constitution, children with disability have the right to education, good and affordable health care, should be handled with dignity and should have the right to express themselves," he said.
"Anyone infringing those rights should be arrested and prosecuted," he added.
He urged parents not to discriminate children living with disabilities, but give them first priority since they need special attention compared to their normal counterparts since with special attention, children with disability can perform even better than the normal ones.
He challenged the national and county governments to build more special schools for children who are physically challenged, since at the moment in Uasin Gishu county there is no such school.
"In Uasin Gishu county we only have one school of children with mentally impaired disability, I humbly urge the national and county government to put into consideration building schools for physically challenged since it will help thousands of children with such problems," he added.