{"id":101857,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/101857/?format=json","text_counter":345,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ms. Odhiambo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":119,"legal_name":"Alfred Bwire Odhiambo","slug":"alfred-bwire"},"content":"persons who want to abuse them. According to statistics, as at 2006, we had 892,000 orphaned children, especially as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, in this country. These children become very easy targets of persons who cannot traffic them out of the country. We also had 250,000 street children as at last year. As I am speaking now, the numbers have, probably, increased; I do not have the figures, but this shows that unless we have a very strong legal framework, we cannot aptly protect our children."}