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    "id": 1054176,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, you are a testimony to the world that you are a very powerful lady with resources. If anything happened today and you were to share your wealth – I hope that does not happen because I have big dreams for you, and hope that someday you will become a more powerful person than where you are right now – where would your wealth go to? Is it fair that your husband should not have a share of it or to share with your children? The law is progressive and we need to include everybody. Husband and wife should be treated in the same way. We have had some philosophies and arguments over the years beginning from the Beijing Conference that we need to empower women. We have empowered them and they should also be treated the same way men are being treated. I would like to acknowledge one of the facts that there are ladies out there who are absolutely doing nothing, but only trading their beauties and waiting for a misfortune to happen to their partners who have wealth and then they quickly rush to courts notwithstanding the pain the family is going through. It takes a long time and it is quite a process for men to build the kind of empires that they have. In this case, an empire does not mean that you have to own a bit in Nairobi. Even if you have a shop in the village or some shares in the stock market, you should be given a chance to share the wealth that you have built with your wife in a fair way that does not discriminate your family who supported you. I was looking at some posts during the International Women’s Day, and some analyst gave an example and explained the kind of contributions ladies make in our lives. They do not have to work in the formal ways that we know. If today you take into account how much ladies are sacrificing for their families to stand, you will start appreciating their contributions."
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