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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Once again, I thank my dear sister for bringing this very important amendment Bill on matters of adoption of children. For some of us who come from urban areas, we are seeing a trend where too many kids are being brought to the streets to live as street families. There is also the trend of young mothers or women getting pregnant and abandoning their children either by wanting to kill them or throwing them away. It is a worrying state of affairs that has brought this country to where it is. As Hon. Martha Wangari talks about adoption of a child who is less than one year and a period of say three months, it is important for us to look at the whole thing holistically so that we can address so many ills that are happening in our country. Just the other day in my county, it was alleged that the county government mopped up street families and dumped them in some forest in Baringo. It is an issue that needs to be investigated. A petition was taken to the county assembly. To date, no answer has been given. It is up to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the relevant agencies that have been bestowed with the responsibility to check and arrest all the people who are culpable for what they did. Dumping of young boys and girls in forest in the middle of the night just to be able to clean up your streets is something that we will be taking up with the relevant authority as a follow-up on the petition that has been taken to Nakuru County Assembly. It is unfortunate that the county assembly to date – after almost two months since the happenings and the petition being taken to the House – has not been able to conclude it. It is important for us to look at the adoption law. It is true that women would need time to adapt and gel with children that they are adopting but at the same time again, as it has been said earlier, men are discriminated against. They also need to be given an opportunity to stay with the children they adopt. Unless it is a single mother adopting, both the father and mother should be given equal treatment to gel and bring up that child in the best possible manner. That is if it is both adopting. It is important for us to look at it deeply. Much as we should be scared or concerned over adoption by foreigners, not all foreigners are bad but, of course, that is the law. We need to look The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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