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    "id": 1157172,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "It is critical for us to know that we live in a world that we will bequeath to the generations to come. Currently, the generations are our children. We are here to protect the very generations that we are talking about. I cannot imagine… I have listened to the Chair talking about some children who were at one time at Kenyatta Hospital. They were 300. The moment it was ordered that they be taken to children’s homes that are government institutions, in three days only three remained. Two of them were disabled and one was infected by HIV. That means that within those three days, 297 children in this Republic were taken to God knows where. I want to imagine that the inter-county adoption that was happening then must have resulted in our children going outside this country for all manner of rituals or adoptions. What is critical between us in this Assembly - if I may loop you in this, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, imagine the brilliant work you are doing now and that, at one time in a hospital bed, somebody stole you because your mother did not know what was happening at that time. By now, your organs would have been eaten by ants because somebody took you out there, removed your organs and put them into somebody’s life who does not belong to this country. We would have lost such a brilliant mind. That applies to all of us. I am happy to report the case of Rwanda. Rwanda has decided that children of Rwanda belong to Rwanda. Period. We do not need to sell our brains out there. We have very nice professors and legislators like Otiende Amollo, Millie Odhiambo and Mwashako who are my friends. Imagine those people could have stolen and destroyed the good work they are doing. That is why we say no. I want to persuade all of us that we say no. Our children should remain here in the country. The entities that have been doing this work, especially the private adoption homes, are the ones that have been in this business. Let us leave this to the hands of the Government. The maximum one can have is having our children getting foster parents and they are reintegrated back to the society. They will not be sold to where they do not belong. The Child Welfare Society of Kenya is doing some good work. But I hear people speak about the institutions that we have like Mama Ngina Children’s Home. They say that it belongs to the former First Lady. It does not. It is just like how we have Moi Children’s Centre in Nakuru. It does not belong to Moi. Tomorrow, we may have another one like Mwathi Children’s Care Centre named after the Chair of the Committee on Administration and National Security. It does not mean it belongs to me. It will belong to the Government. These children are ours. So, let us have what is ours. When we were consulting, I was persuading the Chair to follow the regulations that will put in place to ensure that we close all those private institutions and leave our children to be looked after by the Government with the support from the same Government. So, without belabouring the point, as a country, it is time for us to stand up. If you have been in that business and you are listening to me, please, enough is enough. Whatever you have done is enough. Let us stand for our children, our future and for the generation that will one day say that there were people in this august House this day and this time, who talked about their rights and bequeathed them this country without selling them to foreigners. Thank you."
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