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    "id": 1094102,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1094102/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that The Law of Succession (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.15 of 2021) be read a Second Time. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill is not a very long one, but it is very important to the women of this country. It seeks to address the issues of gender, equity and succession matters. The Bill is amending the law of Succession Act and seeks to ensure that the Act provides for gender equity with regards to succession matters. Before I go into the proposals and provisions of the Bill and the amendments that we seek, please allow me to give a little bit of a background of what occasioned the need for this change. The existing Succession Act is the parent legislation enacted in 1981. This shows how old and how disconnected from the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 it is. It was legislated in 1981 to regulate succession and inheritance laws in the country. It contains certain progressive measures for which the women of this country are quite happy and grateful. However, the implementation is often influenced by the patriarchy and in addition contrary to the Constitution of Kenya, the Act also has discriminatory provisions against women thereby denying women their rights. It became, therefore, necessary for us to make amendments to align the existing Cap.160 to the new Constitution and other progressive laws that I am going to list in a few minutes. Just to look at women’s land and property rights and Law of Succession Act, Cap. 160 of Laws of Kenya and the discrimination between the new provisions and other laws"
}