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    "id": 1106098,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "tittle, you cannot access loans. Land provides a guarantee for some of the loans with which you can use to develop yourself and the community. Initially, in the law of succession of 1981, women were not even being allowed to make and prepare wills. They were not even allowed to challenge one if he does not adequately provide for them. In this new law, we are providing an amendment, so that now women are allowed to make a will. Now, the Constitution, 2010, has allowed women to inherit even land together with their brothers from their parents. Therefore, women now own property. They should be allowed by law to make a will and challenge any other will if it does not adequately provide for them. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the old law, a wife was to be ranked lower than the husband. The husband was always ranked high as the most suitable person to take charge of a deceased’s property. When somebody dies, the person who is ranked highest and is considered most suitable to take charge was the husband. However, there was no provision for a wife. The law of succession of 1981 really blindsided and assumed that women did not exist. We are now able to come to Parliament as women. These are things we cannot allow to continue applying and, then, we go out there and say that we are women and were once in Parliament. What did we do in Parliament to protect the interest of women because things are changing? Our daughters are being taken to the same schools our sons are being taken to. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are not just marrying them off. Why are we taking girls to school? We are taking them to school so that they can also make a life for themselves and contribute to the society. As they contribute to the society, the Constitution provides that there will be no discrimination of any sense, including gender discrimination. Therefore, if they have the same rights as men, husbands or brothers in Constitution, they should enjoy that right. Also in the old Act, children were allowed to inherit without making any reference to a female old child. It only made reference to a male child. It was specific to male child, yet women give birth to both male and female. Even when you give birth to twins, the same womb, on the same day, has produced a girl and a boy. Why would we provide a law of succession that only makes reference to a male child? This is discrimination against children, especially those born out of wedlock. The old law did not consider them. If you are a female child, they worse it is for you."
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