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    "id": 956117,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/956117/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I stand to support this Bill. I will try to limit myself on the issue of the Bill. Hon. Wangari introduced this Bill and the whole idea of adoption when, as a country, we are struggling with adoption. We have a lot of children in children’s homes. This particular Bill is meant to encourage parents to adopt children. It is a fact that when you get a child through normal delivery, you get maternity leave. Ladies get a three month paid maternity leave. Hon Wangari is proposing that those parents who adopt children to be given similar leave. I support that position. Three months is the period that a parent should be given to get used to the child they have adopted. The Idea for a maternity leave when you get a child in hospital is to allow you to bond with the child. When you adopt a child you have more less the same expectation. You need to spend some time bonding with that child. I support the provision for maternity leave for parents who adopt children. I also support this Bill for another reason. We need to encourage more Kenyans to adopt children. We keep talking about street children. The issues we have seen recently, for example, the child who was on social media making interesting comments, part of the problem is lack of parental guidance of children. Any step taken to encourage parents or adults – of course they have to be responsible and mature adults – to step up and take care of children who do not have parents, should be encouraged. As far as I am concerned, this particular Bill is in the right direction. It encourages adults and parents to reach out and adopt children. If they adopt a child, they will be with them for 10-20 years and they will make a difference in their lives. Once that child is an adult, you never know what they can become. I read somewhere recently where someone was talking about children who get adopted and why it is important for parents who adopt children, even if they have their own and the capacity to adopt another child, to step out and adopt. They will be paying in forward. You never know what that child will become in future. That could be the child who will hold your family that has your biological children together. Therefore, this Bill is God sent. I hope that my colleagues are going to support it so that we can do what we are supposed to do to those children who do not have parents. Thank you."
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