Lack of stringent rules to safeguard the rights of People Living with Disabilities (PLWD) has been mentioned as one of the key challenges they face.
Speaking in Eldoret Town during the International Day of Persons with Disabilities where hundreds of the disabled attended, officer in charge of PLWD’s in Uasin Gishu County Titus Yego said that lack of special facilities like toilets in public places is a major setback to PLWD.
"It is very hard even to go in a government institution and find a simple thing like a toilet which is meant for the PLWD," said Yego.
Parents with disabled children arrived with problems as their kids had no wheelchairs, a thing one of the PLWD leaders Barnabas Chemise blamed on the county government.
"There were promises that by now all of them would have wheelchairs which is yet to happen," said Chemise.
He further noted that discrimination during employment is still eminent. He requested the government to make better laws that protects the rights of PLWD.
Elsewhere, people living with disabled children or other elder relatives have been asked not to hide them but bring them out so that they can be served better.
Speaking at Kamwangi DC Offices Gatundu North on Wednesday, members of Youth in Action for Persons with Disabilities said there is a need that all the disabled are known as there are many things that have been initiated to benefit them.
"What I would like to ask you is to let the disabled to come out and interact with the rest of the community. Keeping them indoors is going against their rights," said Simon Kiarie, the group leader.
At the same time they criticised those who have been enriching themselves in the area on behalf of the disabled.
"There are fraudsters who have registered many as members even taking their photos but when they get funding they spend it on their selfish needs," Kiarie added.
They also appealed to the government to consider them for jobs and contracts when such opportunities come saying they are also capable.