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    "id": 1157086,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to interrogate this very important Bill. Children are our future. There is no country without children. This Bill has attracted a lot of interest. I do not know where the interest it attracts emanates from. This Bill was moved in the House before a report of the Committee was tabled. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and even before we finished public participation, the Report was already tabled in the House. It was the first time the Leader of the Majority Party came to the Committee and sat through a whole retreat of the Committee. I do not know what form of interest this Bill attracts from other quarters. We even know there are Members of this House who run children homes. It is really attracting a lot of emotion. We need to prosecute this Bill, so that we can protect our children. It is very voluminous and detailed. There is also a 20-year renewable moratorium on international adoption. The Government has realised, through a lot of investigations, that our children, in the pretence of being adopted internationally, are trafficked for organ harvesting, sexual molestation and pornographic video businesses. Our children, who are adopted internationally, are going through a lot. There is no law to protect them because they are under the laws of those lands. On international adoption, I thank the Government of Kenya for putting a 20-year renewable moratorium on all international adoptions. There are cartels that have rushed with this Bill to try and reopen, through the backdoor, that moratorium on international adoption, so that they can continue with their illegal business of selling our children abroad. They sell our children for organ harvesting, for some people to grow and marry them, and for some people to use them in the business of pornographic videos. Let us say it as it is. We have gone to children homes with children who are abandoned and collected on the streets, majority of them being boys. When you go to international adoption, a majority are girls. An old man comes to pretend to be adopting a child only for him to go and use that child as a maid or grow her up for marriage. We do not know whether the child is nine years old when they start the marriage business. There is evidence that children who are adopted internationally and even nationally have ended up being wives of their purported parents or adopters. The question is: When did they start realising that this is not my biological child and can be a baby oryx that can be adopted in other means? Is it when the child was nine or twelve years The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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