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    "id": 1237352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I also stand to oppose this Motion. This is a Motion of people who do not want to sire children but want to manage other people’s children. They do not want to have children but want to manage, control, and mismanage other people’s children. We have seen cases of children taken away from their parents. Children are gifts from Allah that we should be very proud of. Parents have a special natural connection to their children. If you read these laws in- depth, they provide that your children can be taken away and given to other people or institutions. They will then be allowed to become what they want on their own. However, in our African culture, children are God’s gifts. We are proud of them. We want to keep and maintain them so that they can grow in our values and beliefs. Hon. Speaker, supporting children is mandatory to any parent. It is a must that anybody who sires a child supports him/her. It is unacceptable to say that children can be supported by other people other than their parents. In the African culture, in cases where by God’s grace parents die and children are orphaned, we have a support system. Our Constitution recognises the children’s rights. We also have the Children’s Act which is very explicit and good. So, introducing this foreign ideology of keeping children and sneaking it into our community is to disorient our societies. I cannot be a party to accepting these conventions. We have ratified some very good conventions. Among them is the Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security, the Abuja Declaration on Food Security, and the Malabo Declaration on Agriculture of giving 10 per cent of our budgets to food production. We should consider the good conventions that we need to ratify, but when it comes to such, I stand here firmly and oppose. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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