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    "id": 618187,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wangari",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I take this opportunity to actually thank all the Members that have contributed to this Bill. As I said, it is a simple amendment that will make a difference. It is a simple amendment that will help us nurture generations and our future. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to confirm to the Members that we have taken into account the issues that have been raised and need more canvassing. I am sure that it will follow the due process of legislation in this House. We shall move some of these issues as amendments in the Committee Stage, in order to perfect this Bill, so that it is applicable even for posterity. We can look back 10 or 20 years down the line and see that we actually made a difference. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to add any more to this debate. The Constitution is the supreme law of this land. It anticipates that children, whether adopted or biological, be treated as equals. Some of the issues that we came across include the health of a child. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), most children actually die before the age of five. Some of the children in the children’s homes have been abandoned out there in the cold and have health complications. Those of us who have given birth know how tricky it is to keep rushing a child to the hospital and the uncertainty that comes with the first formative months. So, it will go a long way in protecting and ensuring that such children get that right. By making the adoption process friendlier and ensuring that more people adopt children who have been abandoned in children’s homes and elsewhere, we shall definitely take care of a large population of this country that is lying in the children’s homes. Employees are scared that whenever they take that approach, they will have to get extra help which comes at a cost or lose their jobs all together. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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