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    "id": 1276596,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "I wish he accepted in principle. By the way, he has said yes. Foster care does not work. We want to allow the relatives of the people who are incarcerated to take care of those children and bring them up in the spirit and traditions of the African customs and culture. The State should come in and support that by giving a stipend to care givers to allow them to take good care of the children. It should also have social workers who can monitor and see that the stipend is not spent in chang’aa or busaa, but in the best interest of the children. The emotional distress can be taken care by uncles, aunties and immediate relatives and not anybody else. This Motion is very good and timely. I want us to move in as Africans and as Kenyans and take care of our own. I know of a lady who is an administrator right now and works with the Government as a civil servant, specialised as a District Education Officer (DEO). Everywhere she goes, she picks up children to help and you cannot believe the kind of results that are out there. You will see engineers, lawyers and doctors who were picked up from squalor and later ended up realising their full potential. I urge all Kenyans to take care of their relatives. I urge the Government to have a system that takes care of our children for posterity of our nation."
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