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    "id": 1017602,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1017602/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to support the amendment by the Chair. They are actually Committee amendments. In the first one, the idea was to expand the leave for people adopting a child. However, we thought it was important to balance between the employer's interest of always wanting the employees to be at work and also the human aspect of taking care of a child. That is why the Chair is settling on one month. However, in the second case of surrogacy, there is no law that really governs surrogacy in this country. In addition, like the speaker before me has said, this is a very strong attempt to try and start adopting surrogacy within the laws of Kenya. Moreover, I believe this will move on. In this case then, we are saying that because the child being born will be reflected in a certificate of somebody else and there is a period where the court must do something for that name to be changed for the parents who invoked the surrogacy, then we have given them two months. This is because the two months can make them hold and actually bond. Therefore, I want to strongly support this amendment."
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