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    "id": 1086764,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1086764/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
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    "content": "With your permission, let me just move this one so that I am clear. Under the Marriage Act 2014 of the Laws of Kenya, you can marry in four different ways: You can go to the Office of the Attorney General or church, you can marry under Islamic law, you can marry under customary law, under Hindu law and you can also marry under cohabitation. I want to explain to you. It is said in the interpretation, Section 2 of the Marriage Act that cohabitation means to live in an arrangement with an unmarried couple where the unmarried couple lives together in long term relationships that resemble a marriage. It is legal. I want to declare that I am not a cohabitee. I am a first wife married in church but I will defend the rights of women who are cohabiting with other men who will be left suffering with other children because it becomes our responsibility. In law we have protected cohabitation, not girlfriends, slay queens or people who emerge at funerals and declare they are wives and they were not staying together. When you cohabit consistently with a man over a reasonable period of time, then you are a wife. What we need to agree as a House because the marriage Act did not put it as Members did not agree, is how long that period is. For me what Hon. Kaluma is suggesting as three years is okay. If you have stayed with a man for three years, you are not selling mangoes, rather you are living as a man and wife."
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