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    "id": 1054089,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1885,
        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
        "slug": "didmus-wekesa-barasa-mutua"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this important Bill. I know we will have an opportunity during Committee of the whole House to enrich it further. While we support men inheriting their spouses’ property, we need to take note of men who have become animals. They marry ailing widows for the purpose of only taking over their property. There was a judgement in Eldoret in which the court warned widows against one particular person who had made it a tradition of marrying widows to fleece them of their hard-earned property. I want to really thank Hon. Kaluma. These are the brains that the family division of the High Court has been missing. It does not make sense that after the death of a spouse, members of the extended family masquerade as beneficiaries and they end up tormenting widows. This Bill has come at the right time. I want to urge Members of this House who believe in family values and the sanity of the family to support and approve this Bill. This is so that tomorrow, if one loses their spouse, the one who remains behind should not mourn in double jeopardy. We have widows who mourn their deceased husbands as they also mourn about what awaits them because their in-laws begin to claim the properties that the couple has worked very hard to get. We need to make it very clear that I have no business with the property belonging to my brother or sister. That property belongs to him or her and his or her spouse. There are very many families suffering. There are many widows living on the streets because they are poor, not because they never worked hard in their youth, but because a lazy person in the name of an in-law came in after the death of the spouse and claimed nearly all of the property. Some are even thrown out of their land. Because of our judicial system, these families are unable to get justice in a court of law. The cases drag on and on until they end up dying. So, this is a Bill that we should all support. We look forward to the Committee of the whole House so that we can propose further amendments to make this law a saviour for families in this country. With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support."
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