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    "id": 1154859,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "out of wedlock. Because we are dealing with issues of principle, we must protect children born out of wedlock. If we are in a rush, because we want to pass a Bill that is comprehensive in terms of size, but not comprehensive in terms of principle, then we are cheating the children of this country. Let us look at the Bill carefully. We are even confusing terminology. Differential treatment is taken as discriminatory treatment. There is a lot of confusion. The issues I am raising, I suspect, are not the same issues the civil society is raising. I have not looked at the issues raised by the civil society. I brought my proposals as Millie Odhiambo, Member of Parliament for Suba North and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Caucus on Children. I am very passionate about these issues. I had suggested to the Leader of the Majority Party to request that we sit until midnight tomorrow. That is okay. I will be here. As a matter of fact, I am not well, but I have been coming to Parliament because of this Bill. Let us sit until midnight and deal with the Bill. So long as Hon. Sankok will not rise on a point of order on quorum, I am happy to be here tomorrow until midnight, or to even sit up to Friday. Hon. Sankok has agreed, we can sit until Friday to deal with this Bill. All the Leader of the Majority Party needs to do is to sweet-talk the Office of the Speaker, and the Senate, so that they can prioritise the Bill when it gets there. They should not sit on it the way they sit on other Bills like my Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill. Thank you."
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