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    "id": 1157159,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Likuyani, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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        "id": 294,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
        "slug": "enoch-kibunguchy"
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    "content": "to the university. As much as that sounds good, this might not be quite the case in boarding facilities. It might not even be possible that education will be free. We have to wait and see. May God give us life so that we see whether this will be implemented. The next thing I would like to talk about is the aspect of adoption. I know adoption is exciting when it comes to international adoption. Everybody is talking about it. I would like to zero in on adoption locally. Adoption of our children locally is quite frustrating to parents who need to adopt children. It has so many stringent conditions that one has to fulfil. I wish it could be made easy. As a doctor who deals with parents who cannot have children, these parents are there and they suffer. In the olden days, especially in my tribe, we used to solve issues of childlessness in families very easily. If it was a question of a woman being unable to give birth to children, the husband was advised to marry a second wife and it was so easy. If it was the question of a man not being able to make a woman pregnant or a man who was infertile, again, that used to be very easy. The brother, the first cousin or whoever would do the services. So, it used to be easy. These days, with the advent of education and everybody making sure there is fidelity in the family, it is a big issue. For us who treat couples that cannot have children, it is very frustrating because you can do virtually everything and not get it—everything, including the latest innovation called In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), but you are not always 100 per cent successful. It comes down to where this couple has to or must adopt a child for them to appear like a complete family. As we go through this, I would like us to lessen the stringent measures that would make it possible for couples that cannot have children to adopt children. I am talking about local adoption. Everybody is talking about international adoption on which I concur with my colleagues that we should not make it so easy. We do not exactly know in whose hands children fall in when they go out there. Finally, I commend the Committee for having come up with this aspect of family care rather than having children homes. I believe in family care because it is everywhere and it is documented everywhere that the child is best brought up in a family set up. That is something I really commend the Committee on. I think it is an amendment that we will support wholeheartedly. With those few remarks, I support."
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