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    "id": 855399,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/855399/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Therefore, the Act itself as it were gave a provision by which Government is a regulator and if you then register – and the way to register is even under that Act, you must apply to the director and so on – you then can become an adoption society. However, this amendment overrides the Act itself and says notwithstanding what the Act has said; it is this Child Welfare Society which will be the only adoption society. That is the interpretation that is here. This is the monopoly that we have been talking about since morning. Therefore, this society, which is registered as a society under the Societies Act and put under State Corporations Act, becomes the only adoption society. That is the danger. As my friend, Hon. (Prof.) Oundo has said; why not just establish the society? Make it a legal entity. Move it from a society and make it a government authority with a board which has Mwongozo principles and corporate government and then we will give it money. We are the House that gives it money and we will say that it is good. However, now you create an NGO and then give it money through the pretext of a legal notice. How then are we going to oversee this thing and our duty as Parliament is oversight? Please take advice. It is not too late to change your mind."
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