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    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to add my voice to this Motion. I congratulate Hon. Brighton Yegon for bringing it to the House. This Motion covers even wider issues that should be open to debate and national conversation. Children do not make an application on where they want to be born. Last week marked the end of the International Breastfeeding Week. If you are arrested and you are breastfeeding, do we have mechanisms to ensure that the child breastfeeds for six months to two years as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to boost their immunity? Hon. Temporary Speaker, when Hon. Moody Awori was the Cabinet Secretary then, serious rafts of reforms happened in the correctional facilities. I want to join Hon. Phelix, famously known as Jalas of Lang’ata to say that this issue should be forwarded to the Departmental Committee on Social Protection or the Departmental Committee on Labour. These committees should pay a visit to the correctional facilities so that they can establish the number of children languishing with their parents in jails. Such children are deprived of basic needs. They do not get education or enjoy a comprehensive medical care, which is a constitutional right under Article 53 of the Constitution. To the President and to the Power of Mercy Committee, we have many offenders who are in our correctional facilities today. Some of the women jailed are hardcore criminals, but most of them were incarcerated for petty offences. So, even when we are doing pardons, these are the people we should consider first because we would want to unite them with their families. As it has been said by many Members, gone are the days when we used to be sure that if you leave your child with your extended family, they would be safe. That is no longer the case today. How many incidences have we seen of defilement, incest and sexual abuse 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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