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    "id": 1149351,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1149351/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Chair. I beg to move that: THAT, Clause 69 of the Bill be amended in subsection (2) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (a)- “(aa) the usual place of abode or home is not conducive to the well-being of the child;” What Clause 69 does is that it provides for the overriding objectives of charitable children institutions and in sub clause 2, it says that: “The placement of a child in a charitable children institution shall be done as a last resort in cases where…”; and it goes ahead to give two cases. I am trying to indicate one where people do not usually think of, which is at the usual place of abode or home that is not conducive to the well-being of the child. This is because many children are abused at home. If the home is not conducive to the child, that should also be another reason. We have seen parents who harm their children online. So, even where it is a parent who is harming the child, that should be a reason for placement even as a last resort. So, it should not only be in the two cases which are said here. Thank you, Chair. I move."
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