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    "id": 847965,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/847965/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "I am raising this because I know I may not reach all of them because of time. I want to give another example of the ones they may not have considered. It is the Children Act. First of all, for the last 10 years, the children sector has been working on a comprehensive amendment to the Children Act. We are bringing an amendment that looks minor to make the Child Welfare Society an adoption society and by the proposed amendment, it is going to kill all other adoption societies. By that proposed amendment, it will also kill the Children Department. Then, we need to know if that is the case. We are creating a semi-autonomous agency to kill a permanent department. I have nothing against the Child Welfare Society of Kenya. My mother started her professional work at the Child Welfare Society of Kenya. I was a member of the Adoption Committee of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya. Currently, it is one of the adoption agencies in the country, but we cannot make a very weighty amendment and consider it as a minor amendment that should be coming by way of a miscellaneous one. There are some other weighty amendments which are welcome. On the issue of legal education that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has spoken about, it is wrong if every Tom, Dick, Jack and Harry can be in a position to offer training that qualifies one to be a practising lawyer. I know you know it because you are a lawyer. I can even see you are laughing. The issue of qualifying and getting a degree is totally different from qualification as a practising lawyer."
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