Persons with disabilities have been urged to enlist as voters in the ongoing mass voter registration exercise.
Principal Secretary Gender and Social Services Susan Mochache urged Social protection officers and chiefs to ensure all disabled persons within their regions to be registered as a voter.
"Each person irrespective of disability has full rights to participate in electing leaders of their own choosing as it is their democratic right,” Mochache said.
Mochache was speaking at Ibeno, Nyaribari Chache Sub-County, on Tuesday where she officiated the donation of dozens of equipment among them wheelchairs to the disabled.
More than 100 people with various disabilities were given free treatment before given wheel chairs during the function.
The elderly were also registered for the free NHIF scheme which will enable them access free health care in public and private health facilities.
She said the government was committed to ensure all people with disabilities were given proper social protection and health care.
"We have huge fund reserves set aside for this purpose but can only accessed to if one is registered,” she said.
Ms Mochache said more than Sh 21 billion is used annually to fund the Inua Jamii Programme in the country.
More than 800,000 poor Kenyans have so far benefited money from the program since 2014 while and additional 200,000 get enlisted annually to the programme, the PS said.
She further said all elderly, orphaned and people living with disability were eligible for assistance if they get registered with the National Council for the Disabled.
According to the PS, the government sets aside more than Sh 350 million annually to help in the acquisition of equipment for the disabled persons.