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    "id": 953051,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I support the Bill. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that discussed the Bill. Hon. Martha Wangari, as a mother, had suggested three months. However, as a Committee, we decided for a start, to reduce it to one month. We felt that it was adequate for the bonding session with the new comer in the family. For a long time, parents who cannot sire their own children have been undergoing a lot of psychological trauma. This is a respite for them to, at least, get children. It is good and the best initiative for the Government to allow them a month to bond with the child, bearing in mind that the child is not a biological child of the family and it could have bonded with another family. It might have been breastfed by another mother. Maybe they had a lot of bonding with the previous family. A change of environment and parents require adequate time to bond. As a Committee, we decided not to throw away the suggestion by Hon. Martha Wangari, but to amend it to, at least, one month, so that it also does not become a burden to investors. There are many unpaid leaves in our set-up and sometimes investors are scared to pay a lot of money for leaves when there is no man-hour contribution to the economic status of companies. So, one month for bonding is adequate for the new child irrespective of age. I also want to caution members of the public not to use this law as a leeway or a loophole to pretend to be adopting children and use this one-month leave for child trafficking. Kenyans are very clever. Sometimes you may give them one month to bond with a child that they pretend they have adopted, but in that one month, the child finds its way to America or Europe in the child trafficking syndicate. So, members of the public are warned that this particular Bill is only meant to allow one to bond with the adopted child, but not for child trafficking to get quick money. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Bill."
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