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    "id": 1060568,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Hon. Kaluma has suggested that a person not named in this section shall not be a dependant for purposes of this Act, unless that person proves to have been maintained by the deceased for a period of two years prior to his death. That section is prone to abuse. You could be supporting somebody out of goodwill. That does not mean that person will now have a share of your property or inheritance. I believe when we get to the Committee of the whole House, we need to look at that section very well. I agree with the Leader of the Minority Party in the sense that we need to graduate on who is to get the inheritance in accordance with the way each beneficiary contributed towards the deceased person’s wealth creation efforts. The shares of the widow and the children of the deceased person cannot be the same as the shares of his half-brothers or half-sisters. We need to have a graduated scale that will be used to share out the inheritance of a deceased person. In the Islamic law, it is very clear as to who gets what. I wish during the Committee of the whole House, Hon. Kaluma could introduce some issues as captured in the Islamic Law because it gives proper direction on how the wealth of a deceased person should be inherited. This is a good Bill which needs a little refining. We need to be very careful about what we pass in this House because we may want to create a fairground but, at the end of the day, we may disenfranchise a lot of people. A child is innocent whether he was born by a former wife or a current one. He has a share in the inheritance. If we get those clarities during the Committee of the whole House, I will support the Bill with amendments. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support."
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