Interrogating the county governments’ role in ensuring a more inclusive and accessible society for persons with disabilities must feature prominently. Besides widespread stigma and other attitudinal barriers, facilities are largely physically inaccessible. Devolution presented an opportunity for counties, more so the rural ones, to progressively ensure persons with disabilities fully benefit from it. Public and political spheresHighly progressive, the Constitution secures many gains for persons with disabilities in public and political spheres. County-specific disability laws exist while some counties have persons with disabilities in high executive levels, such as chief officers or disability advisor to the governor.

Source: Daily Nation August 26, 2020 21:00 UTC