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    "id": 718811,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718811/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "The other issue is on adoption of our children by foreigners. In my community, we value children and, therefore, we do not let them to be taken away easily by anyone. Not even by people who have done extraordinary things for them. The issue of adoption of children by foreigners must be controlled. Measures must be put in place to ensure that nobody just comes into our country to take a child to their country. I want to support the proposed amendment to have controlled measures on adoption of children by foreigners. There is also an amendment proposed on the Refugee Act. We are part of the world community. We are part of the conventions that we have signified acceptance. We are part of the Rome Statute as well as the Geneva Convention. If there are proposed amendments on the Refugee Act, we must take into account the obligations that we have signified acceptance to and ensure that we do not come up with amendments that will contradict the spirit envisaged on refugees. We have refugees in our country, and some Kenyans are in other countries. We expect that treatment is harmonised so that nobody feels that they are being treated unfairly and subjected to treatment that contravenes the internationally accepted law. I want to appeal to leaders to look at this Bill with a view of making sure that we take into account domiciled international law. There is a saying that goes: “When two bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers.” The National Police Service (NPS) has units within it. In the past, we had the Special Branch Unit, which was responsible for intelligence gathering."
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