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    "id": 953139,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Munene Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "John Munene Wambugu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to add my voice in support of this proposed amendment to the Employment Act by Hon.Martha Wangari. From the outset, it is a noble and well thought piece of legislation. As a lawyer, I have been involved in adoption cases and it has not been easy. It is energy sapping to the people who want to adopt children. Once you get the certificate, it is important that one gets enough time to gel with the child so that you know each other and embrace one another. We must appreciate one thing, as per the Constitution, that adopted children have full rights like biological children. So, it is the child who requires to be looked at keenly. It is important that the people who adopt the child, both the man and the woman, are given that opportunity. They need to be accorded the same opportunity that they can ordinarily get in law if they were to be the biological parents. This Bill will go a long way to encourage most Kenyans to start adopting children. It is a noble idea. Most of these children come from humble families and others have no families at all; that is why they end up in the children’s societies. If we tell Kenyans that should they adopt a child they will also get leave in order to bond with the child, most of them will be encouraged to embrace the idea of adopting children. So, this Bill is timely. I support it with slight amendments that I will bring at the Committee of the whole House. The Bill has been thought out well. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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