Crystal Asige: We must improve rights of people living with disabilities
By Joel Masibo, September 9, 2025Nominated Senator Crystal Asige has taken her campaign for the implementation of the Persons With Disabilities (PWD) Act 2025 to Mombasa County.
Taking to X account on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, Asige insisted that implementing the Act starts with awareness and targeted sensitisation of institutions that deliver services to Kenyans.
”Spent time in Mombasa with our super-connected grassroots organisations, under the Coast Rights, deep diving into the Persons With Disabilities Act 2025 and speaking openly about the challenges PWDs still face across the coast,” Asige said.
”Forums like this matter, not only to report back with my scorecard so far, but also to put our heads together on what more can be done to improve their rights and freedoms!”
Push for inclusivity
Taking her inclusivity push to the grassroots, Asige also confirmed that she took Mombasa residents’ views on her ongoing Kenya Sign Language Bill, Learners with Disabilities Bill, Startup Bill, and the amendments to various transport laws that she is sponsoring to improve access for all road users.
Previously, Crystal Asige confirmed to engage the Executive, aiming to work with partners while pushing for digital accessibility across all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).
”Implementation begins with awareness, and awareness begins with sensitisation. After sensitising the Judiciary last week on the new Persons With Disabilities Act, 2025, this week I join the Executive arm of Government on how to implement digital accessibility across all Ministries, Departments and Agencies.” Crystal Asige took to her X account on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
The Persons With Disabilities Act, 2025 (No. 4 of 2025) is the long-awaited update to Kenya’s disability framework. It was signed into law earlier this year and formally brought into force in late May 2025. The Act rewrites parts of the country’s institutional architecture for disability rights: it restructures the National Council for Persons with Disabilities, spells out duties for public bodies, strengthens monitoring mechanisms, and introduces incentives and protections meant to make public services and spaces more inclusive.
A key part of Senator Asige’s implementation push is digital accessibility. The Act gives teeth to constitutional promises of inclusion by obliging public institutions to make their services accessible, and in today’s governance, that means online services, portals, e-citizen platforms, court e-filing systems, procurement portals and the like must be usable by people with disabilities.