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    "id": 1054095,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to support this Bill. I want to thank Hon. Kaluma, Member for Homa Bay Town, because he has brought a Bill for posterity. I speak as a woman of this country. You know that 90 per cent of people who are caught in succession and inheritance quagmires are women. Women of Kenya or women of the world do not have access to land or property. We have seen cases where immediately a husband dies, the family pounces on the woman, snatching everything as if the woman did not get into the marriage with anything. That is why it is very important to look at how to quantify the work that a woman brings into a marriage. It is not necessary that she has to be the breadwinner. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill is going to save women. It is a remedy to the women of this country because they are basically affected. It is high time people normalised writing of wills. I do not know why people fear writing wills. This is so that upon their departure, we avoid what is happening in this country. We have seen women suffer disproportionately upon marriage because we do not have clear laws that protect them even in marriage. When women entre into marriage, the domestic work they do is not quantified. We must price what women bring into marriages and unions. When you get married in the United States of America and you find your spouse with a certain property, it belongs to him or her. What you acquire together in marriage belongs to both of you. We need to think of how to protect women upon marriage. I am looking forward to creating more awareness on issues of inheritance and property rights, especially for women, so that we save them. When you switch on your television sets, you see women being disowned by families upon death of their spouses. Before a woman buries her spouse, the husband’s family is already into her property as if she contributed nothing in their union. This Bill is extremely important. It is for posterity. It seeks to protect women as it recognises their contribution in the union called marriage. With those remarks, I support and thank the Member for Homa Bay Town for bringing this Bill to the House."
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