{"id":199998,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/199998/?format=json","text_counter":525,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Omingo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":180,"legal_name":"James Omingo Magara","slug":"omingo-magara"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am at pains to disagree with my colleague in the Departmental Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs. However, truly, let us not also stretch too far. If a parent adopts a child who is six months old and then you give that parent an adoption leave of, say, six months--- What we are saying is that maternity leave has its significance; that of having a mother to breast-feed. We know that the colostrum milk of a mother is critical to a child. How critical is this if the child is beyond the maternity leave period of three months? If we cannot be specific, I am inclined to oppose this amendment."}