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    "id": 1060680,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1060680/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "I want to acknowledge the support that I have received from not only the Members of Parliament, but also my family. Let us go back to the issue of inheritance. Hon. Kaluma has hit the nail on the head. However, you should also look at Sharia Law to help you to understand the law of succession. It came thousands of years ago. There is also the traditional African law. What do the traditions say? They say that you try to maintain the assets within the clan or tribe. Those are the African traditions. Islamic law says that a will only covers one-third of your estate. The rest which is two-thirds is covered under the Sharia Law, unless you give it away in your lifetime. That means that under the law, when we are talking about dependants, you can have step sons and adopted children who must remain as good as your biological children. They are treated the same. This is what Hon. Kaluma has said. If I adopt a child today, even if he is 20 years old, he is my child. There is no need to go to western law to tell you who is your child and who is not. This is what Hon. Kaluma has come up with. He is protecting the family unit as defined under the African tradition. What is our unit? Where did the slay queens and slay kings come from? What happened?"
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