Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 27972,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/27972/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 506,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
    },
    "content": "Clause 9 has always worried me. In fact, immediately after Naivasha, I went public to protest against the clause on children found on Kenyan soil at the age of eight years and below to automatically become citizens. I want to congratulate the Minister because this is a major worry. Child traffickers are international criminals and it involves big money where they pick children from conflict or war situations and dump them in territories where the laws are laxity where they can acquire citizenship easily and they are paid for it. Where there are serious conflicts parents voluntarily give away their children to be taken and dumped in some countries where there is peace. I want to thank the Minister because Clause 9 is very elaborate on how such children can become citizens. I urge the Minister to extend that elaborate process to Clause 14 on adoptions because we have criminal syndicates whose sole business is to transact in adoptions. Unless you give a very clear criteria on how children can be adopted to become Kenyan citizens, again, traffickers and criminals will start abusing that process very easily. So, I urge the Minister to look at that and more or less, strengthen Clause 14 to be crafted in a manner that he has crafted Clause 19 in order to have those limitations."
}