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    "id": 1060600,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060600/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
    },
    "content": "where people amass so much wealth. Even after 60 or 70 years, you find someone is very old and tired and walking with a stick and still stealing billions. You wonder the period such people have to eat or to consume that which they are accumulating. It is because they want to leave money for their children and grandchildren to make these people lazy to depend on what they have stolen from the State coffers. This may be discouraged by putting a law where a portion of your wealth once you die, should be devoted to the State because the State helped you to create that wealth for you in one way or the other. I agree with Hon. Kaluma that we need to be very clear in defining. We have seen how these legal terminologies have been misused. I do not know where we were when this law was being passed. When you talk generally of a former wife or wives, this leaves the interpretation of who a wife is or who wives are to the judges and the lawyers to argue. You know how long the succession cases in this country take. You find someone dies and for 20 years, the children and grandchildren are languishing in poverty. Yet, the wealth of that person is a contest in court and it is the lawyers who are profiting from the same. They do not even want to conclude the cases because the longer the cases take, the more money they make. So, I agree that we need to remove this definition of former wife and wives. It is either you are a wife or not. The moment you are no longer my wife when I am still alive, we should agree when you are leaving me as my wife, to either go with your portion of my wealth or you leave it. Once you leave anything with me, it then belongs to me and my current wife or wives that I have. So, I do not know where this thing of former wife or wives came from. Something that Hon. Kaluma, the promoter of the Bill needs to look at, is the amendment to Section 29 which has been repealed, and is here as Clause 3 (b). It talks about the deceased parents, step parents, grandparents, grand children, step children, children whom the deceased had taken into his family as his own. After saying that, it then goes ahead to brothers, sisters, half-brothers and half-sisters as were being maintained by the deceased immediately prior to his death. Either we define what maintaining means or we be very clear. Right now, I am paying school fees to so many of my nephews and that can be treated as maintenance because I even give them pocket money. Does it mean that when I die, they automatically have a say in my wealth? I do not think so."
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