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    "id": 1054146,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1054146/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Loima, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Lomorukai",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ekamais Lomorukai",
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    "content": " Ekamais Lomorukai. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this very important Bill by Hon. Kaluma. Hon. Kaluma is my good friend. This Bill has come at the right time. Those women and men out there who are seeing us discussing this very important Bill will be extremely happy because it takes care of the interests of every spouse, including men. Hon. Kaluma has replaced the term “wife” with the term “spouse”. That means that the interests of all spouses will be taken care of. I am a pastoralist. Pastoralists suffer a lot when a spouse passes on. The culture and tradition of pastoralists, just as my colleague from Turkana South has mentioned, is a bit complicated. When a husband dies, even the uncles of the wife will come and take all the property that should have been taken by the spouse who has lost her husband. The Bill takes care of the disadvantages that haunt those who remain after their spouse has died. In our Turkana culture, and even most of the neighbourhood, including the Pokot, a person is officially married if he or she is traditionally married. They do not consider a church wedding. When you have not married your spouse officially or traditionally, even your children will not be yours until you follow those important stages of marriage, such as killing a bull. Only then can you claim your children. This law tries to take care of such issues so that every spouse, even a man, has the right to inherit the property of their spouse. I take this opportunity to support this Bill. It is timely and takes care of every spouse."
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