Josphat Kabinga Wachira

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Again, I have no hard feelings on that. This Bill should be taken very seriously by this House. It concerns our children. It comes at a time when the country has had a lot of challenges with issues of children. This is a sector that has been dogged by a lot of interests, as Members who have spoken before me have alluded to. This is an area where my Committee took a lot of time to not only engage various stakeholders but also to make physical visits to various facilities. Some of our findings ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: interest. Many of the non-state actors want to push this country into opening immediately, even before building up the structures. We advise against that. We need to uphold the moratorium, until such time when we will sit and say that this country is now ready for international adoption. view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, some of our findings were horrible. The international adoption takes place in this country. However, you cannot trace those children in any way, even in the database that we have. When you go to the children’s homes, you do not get clear information on the children who have been adopted internationally. South Africa has put in place a central command that keeps all the records. It ensures that any child who moves out of South Africa after adoption can be traced. Even the movement of the parent who adopts that particular child can be traced. Our ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: We also looked at intersex children in this country. This is a community that is not well taken care of. People assume that our children are either male or female. They forget that we have intersex children. Some of them go through tremendous torture in this country because of the way they were born. The Committee had an opportunity to hear from Mr. James Karanja who was born as Ms. Mary Waithira. We understood the issue of intersex children and their problems in this country. There is one challenge that we dealt with. We have clauses that say that a ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: The other issue that this Committee was really concerned about was the work relations between the various stakeholders in this country in children matters. In this regard, we looked at the Child Welfare Society of Kenya and the National Council for Children’s Services. We realised that their work relationship is not the way we expect. It is unfortunate that this Committee may not have enough time to convene meetings between the various entities to bring better work environment among them. Because of that problem, some of the actors take advantage. They align themselves with either Child Welfare Society of Kenya ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: For this reason, we discovered that some of the strong institutions that have the capacity to help us to take care of the children are fought in this country. Fighting is geared towards: view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: (a) ensuring that this country cannot phase out children’s homes because there are no other alternatives; and view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: (b) this country continues with international adoptions that have been a problem. view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: As a result, we made various recommendations. One of them, that is attached to our Report, is ensuring that we understand the functions of the Child Welfare Society of Kenya in the Ministry, National Council for Children’s Services and also various other actors. The Child Welfare Society of Kenya is budgeted for in this country. If we have problems with some of these institutions, why are they budgeted for? We realised that it is all about fighting. As a Committee, we will put efforts in the remaining time to ensure that we sit with these institutions, so that each one ... view
• 6 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also commend all the actors, including the non-state ones. As I said, we visited them again. Some of these homes are really doing good things to our children. Some of them struggle to keep children in their homes. They are not supported in any The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view