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    "id": 835345,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "fathers can only take care of them if they sign a parental responsibility agreement with their mothers or have court orders. I ask Hon. Members to think about this properly. We have many mentally ill mothers, but who conceive children and give birth to them. Where do they get the mental faculty to sit with the fathers of these children to do the things we call parental responsibility or agreements or go to court against their fathers? I am saying this to remind the House that this Petition is timely because it calls on the House to reflect deeply on the rights of the child as espoused in the Constitution and bring all laws in tandem with the supreme law. We need not only look at the Children Act but we also need to look at the Succession Act in terms of the discrimination going in the direction of children, more so where we have cultures and testaments or wills discriminating against them. We need to look at the Sexual Offences Act, particularly the law relating to defilement, which my learned friends were talking about."
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