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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "I will start with the Children’s Act, 2022 which the Bill proposes to amend by removing the provisions which prohibit the court from granting a sole male applicant adoption of a child. Hon. Temporary Speaker, twenty years ago in this country, a family went through the worst. They went through a case that was very sad through the High Court to Supreme Court at that time. This was a child who was born by a mother who was a Kenyan and the father, a British citizen. When issues arose between them, they had to live with the child when he was seven years at the time. The mother has followed her child all those years until recently when the UK Government, through the courts, granted her permission to see her child. These are some of the issues the Children’s Act, 2022 is going to support not just to that one Kenyan woman but many other Kenyan women who might be going through the same challenges here and even abroad. One cannot bring their child to Kenya because of these restrictions. You remember there was a time in this Parliament we were to pass the Treaty so that we help. I know we rejected it but it is something we need to look at from all angles. As we look at the proposed amendments, we have to ask ourselves… I know there are challenges when we adopt children. They go through a lot of anxiety. They also find themselves incompatible with the families they have gone to and many other things. If we agree to the amendments, we have to look at this issue from both sides and ensure that that a child goes to a homely foster home."
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