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    "id": 1060629,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060629/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Amendment that has been put forward with regard to inheritance. I want to make a few observations. One observation is what has been alluded to by Hon. Mbadi that, indeed, as we think about inheritance. We must also think about the dynamics that are going on in the society. It is not a privilege of many to inherit from their fathers anymore because within the African tradition, what was common to be inherited was land and wealth from the parents. This is not the case anymore. It is because of that, that we are now seeing what I could call moving wealth which include gains from education and gains from any sort of investment that people would have made as a family. I want to say also that even as we think about this amendment, let us also think about how we can induct discipline for work and the desire to generate resources. I am talking about discipline in terms of the desire to generate resources as individuals, so that it is not a question of looking at one person, namely, the husband or wife. You cannot be waiting for either to die so that you can inherit their property. Every child got through marriage or any form of inheritance... We do not want to see idlers hanging around when a key member of a family dies just to claim inheritance."
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