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    "id": 1054170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1054170/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2328,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
        "slug": "patrick-makau-kingola"
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    "content": "Traditionally, it has been thought that it is women who are supposed to inherit or succeed the husband. I submit that this amendment, which seeks to replace the word “wife” with the word “spouse” is progressive because there is no one time we have ever heard men fighting at a woman’s burial or funeral claiming to be husbands of the late women. It was only one place during the burial of the late Wambui Otieno, the wife of Mbugua. The people then told the young man who was living with Wambui Otieno, prior to her death that he was not the husband. That is the only case where we had a man being told that he had nothing to do with the lady. What Hon. Kaluma has done, as other Members have said, will put to an end the kind of fighting that takes place at funerals as mipango ya kando demand to be recognised as spouses of deceased persons. The Kamba people, to whom I belong, believe in the first wife. The property of a deceased husband is divided amongst his wives. Even if one had four wives, and one wife has 10 children while another has one child, the property is divided amongst the widows. If any of the wives dies before the man, the man inherits everything from the woman. Assuming I had married a magistrate, a banker, a pilot and a retired teacher and they all die before me it means I will be a very rich man. So, this law is very encouraging now that the ratio of men to women is increasing. There are more women than men. It also encourages us, Christians, to look at the Muslim tradition with regard to marriage. A Muslim is encouraged to marry up to four wives. It depends on the performance of the women. If one man can marry four women, one is within the religious beliefs. However, as an august House, it is important for us to look at …."
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