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    "id": 252225,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the President",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amason Jeffah Kingi",
        "slug": "amason-kingi"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Further to the information that I gave last week about this Question, we have carried out further investigations and found out that the mother of the above named child, Ms. Rael Cherobon Chepkwony, escaped from lawful custody, and abandoned the said child at Kabiyet Police Station. She has admitted escaping from lawful police custody, and abandoned her child through, a sworn affidavit. We have a copy of that affidavit. The Officer Commanding Station (OCS), Kabiyet Police Station, called the maternal grandparents to hand over the child, but they refused. Consequently, the OCS, Kabiyet Police Station, requested Inspector Mohammed to keep the child in his custody until his other relatives are found. That is common procedure. Police officers are still looking for the mother. (b) Investigations have revealed that the child was given to one Philip Bowen and Christine Bowen, who are the relatives of the mother to the child. That was done on 20th April, 2006, after the necessary procedures were followed to release the child. (c) Currently, the child lives with Christine Bowen in Lelmuk Location. Our officers visited the home of Christine Bowen on 24th April, 2006 at 4.00 p.m., and found the child safe, happy and April 25, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 623 in very good health. Inspector Mohammed was requested by the OCS, Kabiyet, to take care of the child after the mother escaped from custody on 19th July, 2005. Therefore, he did not act on his own accord. That was a temporary measure to safeguard the child as efforts to identify close relatives were being made. The officer, therefore, does not deserve disciplinary action. It is the mother who escaped from lawful custody and left the child."
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