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    "id": 1060741,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dr. Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to conclude my presentation. Those are the challenges that we must address. Second or third, is Clause 3(b). It is too wide and impractically impossible. I want to echo the sentiments of my party chair. Many of us as either politicians or ordinary human beings support too many children. We support too many families out of philanthropy and generosity. We have no intentions at all of them becoming family members or fall into the description of truly a dependant. Personally, since I got a job, I have paid school fees for too many children. Until now, we remain friends. I have done very many things for the vulnerable families and I still do it today. That is my personal decision. My wife or my children do not share it. Why should you force my children and my wife when I am gone that they must continue to support these people because they were my dependants? We must re-state this and clearly only limit to those blood relatives. In addition, I would even suggest we expand to include mother in-laws, father in-laws, and all those kinds of things because we are so limiting in the definition. It is something he has tried, but he needs to go further and cure the shortcomings of the particular Act. Indeed, as we say, every woman and every man deserves companionship of whichever definition and of whichever nature. Putting a straight jacket about who can be a participant in any form is extremely unfair. As I conclude, we need to avoid this obsession with succession. We need to avoid this obsession with inheritance. A reasonable man, a reasonable woman, an able-bodied person should work for himself and earn their own assets to live on their own instead of hoping to depend. Even in this House, there are very many Members whose parents died and left them with nothing. It has never stopped them from succeeding in life and building their own class of assets. That is why I want to urge all people - men, women, and whoever it is - before you die or as you go along, please have a will to clearly state your dependants."
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