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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "Finally, I agree to some extent with Hon. Kaluma on the issue of adoption. I am saying to some extent because you have to carefully look at the Constitution and presume the persons who are seeking this amendment are looking at discrimination. If you are looking at a single female applicant who can be allowed to adopt a child, I am sure they are thinking ‘What about a single male applicant?’ I would propose that there should be a further amendment – whether for female or male – to look at the best interests of the child any time we deal with adoption. We have unique and special circumstances relating to children in the adoption spectre. As a person who brought the Bill on counter-trafficking in persons, as a consequence of being the Director of the Cradle of the Children Foundation then, even though I am not the director now, I still dealt with many cases of trafficking. One such case even forced us to exhume a body to confirm whether one of the children was a child to the alleged parents. If you want to stem that, it is important that we stem the issues of trafficking in persons."
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